In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens II: Signs of Patronage in Medieval Manuscripts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.

Organizer Name

Jessica Savage, Judith Golden

Organizer Affiliation

Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ., Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.

Presider Name

M. Alison Stones

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Paper Title 1

How Owner Portraits Work

Presenter 1 Name

Maeve Doyle

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Bryn Mawr College

Paper Title 2

The Patroness Portrait of the Fécamp Psalter (ca. 1180): An Unknown Example of Royal Artistic Commission in Angevin Normandy

Presenter 2 Name

Jesús Rodríguez Viejo

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Edinburgh

Paper Title 3

Patron Portrait as Creation Myth: On "Production Scenes" in Illuminated Manuscripts

Presenter 3 Name

Shannon L. Wearing

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Irvine

Start Date

12-5-2017 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 106

Description

This session will examine the varied “visual signatures” of manuscript patrons, including dress, gestures, posture, and attributes of donor figures; heraldry and personalized inscriptions; marginal notes, colophons, dedications, and other signs of ownership and use in medieval manuscripts. Building on scholarship presented in the 2013 Index of Christian Art conference Patronage: Power and Agency in Medieval Art, this session will investigate the dynamic system of patronage centered on the interaction of owners with their books (whether as creator, patron, commissioner, or reader-viewer). Papers will address the importance of gender and social roles in book production, use, and readership, or will expand upon the role of patron as instigator in the book creation process, from payment to design.

Jessica L. Savage