Death in the Late Middle Ages: Art and Literature in the Iberian Peninsula
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Univ. de Burgos
Organizer Name
Rene Jesus Payo Hernanz
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. de Burgos
Presider Name
Rene Jesus Payo Hernanz
Paper Title 1
The Royal Pantheon of the Royal Monastery of Las Huelgas of Burgos: Its Importance for Gothic Funerary Sculpture and Medieval Commerce and Clothing
Presenter 1 Name
Maria Pilar Alonso Abad
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. de Burgos
Paper Title 2
Written Memory of the Deceased in Burgos Cathedral
Presenter 2 Name
Sonia Serna Serna
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Burgos
Paper Title 3
Deathbed Scenes in Iberian Poetry and Prose
Presenter 3 Name
Ana del Campo
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Paper Title 4
Aqui foi morto: Writing the Dead at Alcacer Quibir
Presenter 4 Name
Elizabeth Spragins
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2013 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1225
Description
Death in the Late Middle Ages: Art and Literature in the Iberian Peninsula.
As one of the main human preoccupations, death has received a privileged treatment in both literature and the arts. Throughout the middle ages, man sought to perpetuate his memory after death by inviting the living into a close collaboration in his salvation. The upper echelons of society strived to create spaces, both textual and artistic, that would allow them to reach this end. This session intends to take a close look at the spaces that were reserved for the representation of death in the great monasteries and cathedrals of Europe, theIberian Peninsulain particular. Approaches considered for inclusion in this session include, but are not limited to, the examination of the literary and plastic representations of death right after the outbreak of the Black Death of 1348, the innovative funerary art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, or the visual spaces allocated to death by the ruling elite of the late middle ages.
Rene J. Payo Hernanz
Death in the Late Middle Ages: Art and Literature in the Iberian Peninsula
Schneider 1225
Death in the Late Middle Ages: Art and Literature in the Iberian Peninsula.
As one of the main human preoccupations, death has received a privileged treatment in both literature and the arts. Throughout the middle ages, man sought to perpetuate his memory after death by inviting the living into a close collaboration in his salvation. The upper echelons of society strived to create spaces, both textual and artistic, that would allow them to reach this end. This session intends to take a close look at the spaces that were reserved for the representation of death in the great monasteries and cathedrals of Europe, theIberian Peninsulain particular. Approaches considered for inclusion in this session include, but are not limited to, the examination of the literary and plastic representations of death right after the outbreak of the Black Death of 1348, the innovative funerary art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, or the visual spaces allocated to death by the ruling elite of the late middle ages.
Rene J. Payo Hernanz