Materiality and . . . ?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Association of the Pacific
Organizer Name
Miranda Wilcox
Organizer Affiliation
Brigham Young Univ.
Presider Name
Maile S. Hutterer
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Oregon
Paper Title 1
Musical Materiality in Chaucer's "Boece," BL Add. MS 10340
Presenter 1 Name
Juliana Chapman
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Brigham Young Univ.
Paper Title 2
Materiality and . . . Whiteness: The Case of Ivory
Presenter 2 Name
Marian A. Bleeke
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Cleveland State Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 208
Description
An object’s physicality is one of its defining characteristics—something that helps to separate material culture from other cultural products. Of late, scholarship has increasingly focused on the materiality of medieval objects as a way of understanding their ritual, symbolic, and economic significances. This session builds on this burgeoning area of study to specifically consider how materiality intersects with other aspects of medieval culture and/or theoretical frameworks. Potential submissions might comprise investigations of the relationship between an object’s materiality and its facture, including considerations of the artists or craftsmen involved in its production; the intertwined relationship between materiality and form; or how the lens of materiality works with or against historicizing approaches to material culture. Miranda Wilcox
Materiality and . . . ?
Bernhard 208
An object’s physicality is one of its defining characteristics—something that helps to separate material culture from other cultural products. Of late, scholarship has increasingly focused on the materiality of medieval objects as a way of understanding their ritual, symbolic, and economic significances. This session builds on this burgeoning area of study to specifically consider how materiality intersects with other aspects of medieval culture and/or theoretical frameworks. Potential submissions might comprise investigations of the relationship between an object’s materiality and its facture, including considerations of the artists or craftsmen involved in its production; the intertwined relationship between materiality and form; or how the lens of materiality works with or against historicizing approaches to material culture. Miranda Wilcox