Memory: Public Display and Material Evidences II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM)
Organizer Name
Vincent Debiais
Organizer Affiliation
CRH-AHLoMA (EHESS/CNRS), Paris
Presider Name
Valerie M. Wilhite
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of the Virgin Islands
Paper Title 1
Commemorating Queenship through Object Foundation and Circulation
Presenter 1 Name
Tracy Chapman Hamilton
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Paper Title 2
Remembering Not to Forget: Wisdom and the Performance of Memory
Presenter 2 Name
Ann Hubert
Presenter 2 Affiliation
St. Lawrence Univ.
Paper Title 3
Do This in Memory of Me: Eucharist and the Experience of Eschatological Wholeness
Presenter 3 Name
Nevena Dimitrova
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. Karlova v Praze
Paper Title 4
Public and Family Memories in a Community Written Monument : The Municipal Cartulary of Libourne
Presenter 4 Name
Nathalie Crouzier-Roland
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne
Start Date
13-5-2018 10:30 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 208
Description
The two sessions cosponsored by the IMS-Paris and the CESCM-Poitiers aim to explore how medieval men and women used material devices, artefacts, and inscriptions to stage the memory of people and facts in public spaces.
In the perspective of Oexle’s seminal work, participants are invited to elaborate on the meaning and shape of public monuments erected for individual or institutional commemorations, and on the effect of such devices in the collective construction of past. Commemorative inscriptions, statues, fountains, columns translate memory into material signs, footprints of the past in medieval landscapes. In the other hand, public ceremonies, processions and liturgical celebrations need provisional constructions and displays to perform the public and demonstrative side of memory. Thus, the sessions would like to explore how daily practices an d permanent installations of commemoration give shape to medieval understanding of time and space.
In order to go beyond the state of art, and to nuance the boundaries between private and public spaces, religious and political ceremonies, individual and collective memory, these sessions aim to gather specialists from different disciplines: history, art history, epigraphy, literature, liturgy, musicology… At the crossroad of visual studies and social history, the sessions would like to echo the new research trends on the complex notion of “memory” by articulating within a single approach historical facts and the material way they have been understood and commemorated by medieval groups and individuals.
Vincent Debiais
Memory: Public Display and Material Evidences II
Bernhard 208
The two sessions cosponsored by the IMS-Paris and the CESCM-Poitiers aim to explore how medieval men and women used material devices, artefacts, and inscriptions to stage the memory of people and facts in public spaces.
In the perspective of Oexle’s seminal work, participants are invited to elaborate on the meaning and shape of public monuments erected for individual or institutional commemorations, and on the effect of such devices in the collective construction of past. Commemorative inscriptions, statues, fountains, columns translate memory into material signs, footprints of the past in medieval landscapes. In the other hand, public ceremonies, processions and liturgical celebrations need provisional constructions and displays to perform the public and demonstrative side of memory. Thus, the sessions would like to explore how daily practices an d permanent installations of commemoration give shape to medieval understanding of time and space.
In order to go beyond the state of art, and to nuance the boundaries between private and public spaces, religious and political ceremonies, individual and collective memory, these sessions aim to gather specialists from different disciplines: history, art history, epigraphy, literature, liturgy, musicology… At the crossroad of visual studies and social history, the sessions would like to echo the new research trends on the complex notion of “memory” by articulating within a single approach historical facts and the material way they have been understood and commemorated by medieval groups and individuals.
Vincent Debiais