Transfer of Cultural Products: France and the Mediterranean Area in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM); International Medieval Society, Paris
Organizer Name
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
Organizer Affiliation
Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM)
Presider Name
Lindsay S. Cook
Presider Affiliation
Vassar College
Paper Title 1
Nova Francia? Cultural Exchange between France and Byzantium in Frankish Greece, 1204-1261
Presenter 1 Name
Grant Shrama
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Queen’s Univ. Kingston
Paper Title 2
The Diffusion of French Gothic Architecture in Southern Italy: The Apulia Region
Presenter 2 Name
Arianna Carannante
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Paper Title 3
Knowing the Other's Emblematic Practices: Mamluk Basins Made for the West
Presenter 3 Name
Simon Rousselot
Presenter 3 Affiliation
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Start Date
9-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 2335
Description
The two sessions cosponsored by the IMS-Paris and the CESCM-Poitiers aim to explore the transfer of cultural products between France and the Mediterranean area during the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries.
Following the theory of Michel Espagne proposed in the eighties, the notion of “cultural transfer” can be understood in broad sense, as a process of interaction, a dynamics of semantic transformations which results from the passage of a cultural object from one context to another. The transfer can concern material as well as immaterial data: objects, ideas, forms, methods, technologies etc. Within the relations between France and Mediterranean area (notably with the Islamic or the Byzantine world), what kind of transfer of cultural products can we observe? Which/who were the vectors and the “bridges” of these exchanges? Where were the places of mediation? Any object that falls into a new context takes on a new meaning. What processes are involved in the appropriation of an object, its adaptation, what resistance to its integration, what reinterpretation and re-signification? In which way did it transform its new context? Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
Transfer of Cultural Products: France and the Mediterranean Area in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries I
Schneider 2335
The two sessions cosponsored by the IMS-Paris and the CESCM-Poitiers aim to explore the transfer of cultural products between France and the Mediterranean area during the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries.
Following the theory of Michel Espagne proposed in the eighties, the notion of “cultural transfer” can be understood in broad sense, as a process of interaction, a dynamics of semantic transformations which results from the passage of a cultural object from one context to another. The transfer can concern material as well as immaterial data: objects, ideas, forms, methods, technologies etc. Within the relations between France and Mediterranean area (notably with the Islamic or the Byzantine world), what kind of transfer of cultural products can we observe? Which/who were the vectors and the “bridges” of these exchanges? Where were the places of mediation? Any object that falls into a new context takes on a new meaning. What processes are involved in the appropriation of an object, its adaptation, what resistance to its integration, what reinterpretation and re-signification? In which way did it transform its new context? Estelle Ingrand-Varenne