Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM); International Medieval Society, Paris
Organizer Name
Vincent Debiais
Organizer Affiliation
Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale
Presider Name
Steven Isaac
Presider Affiliation
Longwood Univ.
Paper Title 1
Inscribed Capitals in French Romanesque Cloisters: Monastic Identity and Bounding Space
Presenter 1 Name
Kristine Tanton
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Paper Title 2
Mitre, Crozier, and Ring: Representations of Benedictine Abbots in the Late Middle Ages
Presenter 2 Name
Anne Heath
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Hope College
Paper Title 3
Think the Other through the Image: Anti-Jewish Discourse in the Medieval Manuscript
Presenter 3 Name
Pamela Nourrigeon (Edwards Memorial Travel Award Winner)
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. de Poitiers
Paper Title 4
The Construction of the Identity of Islamic Societies throughout the Arts: Encounters and Confrontations in Late Medieval Mediterranean (Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries)
Presenter 4 Name
María Marcos Cobaleda
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa
Start Date
13-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1340
Description
This session, which is proposed in coordination with the Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale de Poitiers and the International Medieval Society-Paris will explore new avenues of research on visual signs marking the identity of social, religious, and political groups in different spaces (real or imaginary), and the ways in which these groups distinguished themselves. Recent advances in the auxiliary sciences, which take into account social phenomena in the origin, creation and usage of systems of signs, permit us to revisit questions posed by emblems, armor, inscriptions, and images that mark the landscape and establish hierarchical spaces, both separate and connected. In the dialectic of inclusion/exclusion, signs become references of identity included, integrated, claimed or rejected in reaction to historical circumstances and power relations. This session brings together specialists from different disciplines to explore how visual signs work in real spaces, such as cities, monasteries, and castles; and literary spaces where such signs appear frequently in motifs and narratives.
vincent debiais
Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture II
Schneider 1340
This session, which is proposed in coordination with the Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale de Poitiers and the International Medieval Society-Paris will explore new avenues of research on visual signs marking the identity of social, religious, and political groups in different spaces (real or imaginary), and the ways in which these groups distinguished themselves. Recent advances in the auxiliary sciences, which take into account social phenomena in the origin, creation and usage of systems of signs, permit us to revisit questions posed by emblems, armor, inscriptions, and images that mark the landscape and establish hierarchical spaces, both separate and connected. In the dialectic of inclusion/exclusion, signs become references of identity included, integrated, claimed or rejected in reaction to historical circumstances and power relations. This session brings together specialists from different disciplines to explore how visual signs work in real spaces, such as cities, monasteries, and castles; and literary spaces where such signs appear frequently in motifs and narratives.
vincent debiais