Dr. Marilyn Stokstad (late) was professor emerita of art history at the University of Kansas. She was the Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Missouri and also the past-President of the College Art Association and the past-President of the International Center for Medieval Art. She is the author of Art: A Brief History, Santiago de Compostela: In the Age of the Great Pilgrimages, Art History, and a number of catalogs on medieval art, including Gardens of the Middle Ages.