Memory: Public Display and Material Evidences I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM)
Organizer Name
Vincent Debiais
Organizer Affiliation
CRH-AHLoMA (EHESS/CNRS), Paris
Presider Name
Sarah Ann Long
Presider Affiliation
Michigan State Univ.
Paper Title 1
Saint Agnes of Rome, the Pope, and the "Purpuresque Pavo": Memory Issues of the Apse Mosaic of Santa Agnese fuori le mura (625-638)
Presenter 1 Name
Raphaël Demès
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Paper Title 2
Epigraphic Programs in Almoravid Constructions: The Commemoration of the Emirs' Supremacy
Presenter 2 Name
María Marcos Cobaleda
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Málaga
Paper Title 3
The Lapidary Obituary of Plaimpied-Givaudins: Technical Memory of the Canons
Presenter 3 Name
Thierry Grégor
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. de Poitiers
Paper Title 4
The Lapidary Obituary of Plaimpied-Givaudins: Textual Memory of the Canons
Presenter 4 Name
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
Presenter 4 Affiliation
CNRS-CESCM Poitiers
Start Date
13-5-2018 8:30 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 I
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