Carole Levin and Patricia A. Simpson discuss the exhibition “Beyond Eve and Mary: Premodern Representations of Gender, Power, and Religion,” which they co-organized and which inspired the adjacent exhibition “Reigning Queens: Modern and Contemporary Representations of Women, Power, and Religion.”

Levin is Willa Cather Emerita Professor of History and Simpson is professor of German at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

(Image: Albrecht Dürer, “Hroswitha of Gandersheim Presenting Her Comedies to Emperor Otto I [from Opera Hrosvite],” 1501 [detail]. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Anna R. and Frank M. Hall Charitable Trust, H-774.1962.)