Object Iterations
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Luke A. Fidler
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Presider Name
Luke A. Fidler, Julia Oswald, Scott Miller
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago, Northwestern Univ., Northwestern Univ.
Paper Title 1
Image-Being: The Poliorcetica and the Ontography of Images
Presenter 1 Name
Roland Betancourt
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Irvine
Paper Title 2
Realia in Reliquaries: The Rhetoric of Material Presentation in Scenic Reliquaries, ca. 1300
Presenter 2 Name
Sarah M. Guérin
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Montréal
Paper Title 3
Reading Things in Medieval Rome
Presenter 3 Name
Erik Inglis
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Oberlin College
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Beate Fricke
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Start Date
16-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1140
Description
An opening from a later medieval ivory devotional booklet presents the Arma Christi, the “weapons of Christ” or the instruments of his passion. Decontextualized from the Calvary narrative and set against the monochromatic ivory backdrop, the objects assume an efficacy of their own even as they appear oddly strewn and scaled across the page. Like other medieval things—including imaginary and re-visioned objects—the Arma Christi formed a continuum of animacy that, as Caroline Walker Bynum recently noted, blurred the borders between human fabrications, found objects, and medieval subjects. Imago and res intersected both at the level of material mediation and in the content of depiction. Attending to recent object-based methodologies in Medieval Studies (e.g. the material turn, thing theory, object-oriented ontology), this panel seeks to probe the ways in which re-presentation facilitated dialogue between objects and beholders.
Luke A. Fidler
Object Iterations
Schneider 1140
An opening from a later medieval ivory devotional booklet presents the Arma Christi, the “weapons of Christ” or the instruments of his passion. Decontextualized from the Calvary narrative and set against the monochromatic ivory backdrop, the objects assume an efficacy of their own even as they appear oddly strewn and scaled across the page. Like other medieval things—including imaginary and re-visioned objects—the Arma Christi formed a continuum of animacy that, as Caroline Walker Bynum recently noted, blurred the borders between human fabrications, found objects, and medieval subjects. Imago and res intersected both at the level of material mediation and in the content of depiction. Attending to recent object-based methodologies in Medieval Studies (e.g. the material turn, thing theory, object-oriented ontology), this panel seeks to probe the ways in which re-presentation facilitated dialogue between objects and beholders.
Luke A. Fidler