The five articles in this first issue of 2016 are distributed across the range of fields, media, and approaches which JHNA has defined as its purview.

Kathryn Rudy provides a captivating new approach to late medieval prayer books in her study of the Christocentric metallic objects that late medieval Christians sewed into their books of hours. These Eucharist badges, as she identifies them here, turned books into shrines for storing the body of Christ.