Visualizing Identity in the Middle Ages: Coins, Seals, and Material Culture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Susan Solway
Organizer Affiliation
DePaul Univ.
Presider Name
Susan Solway
Paper Title 1
Interwoven Identities: The Luttrell Table Carpet from the Burrell Collection
Presenter 1 Name
James Robinson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Burrell Collection
Paper Title 2
Conflicted Temporalities? Medieval Seals as Evidence of the Past
Presenter 2 Name
Lloyd de Beer
Presenter 2 Affiliation
British Museum
Paper Title 3
Keeping it in the Family: Minting and the Anglo-Saxon "State"
Presenter 3 Name
Jeremy Piercy
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Edinburgh
Start Date
10-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1325
Description
Visualizing Identity in the Middle Ages: Coins, Seals, and Material Culture
This session explores the multifarious ways that artists visualized identity in the material culture of the Middle Ages, particularly in coins and seals as well as in other objects. How did such objects serve as vehicles for claims of identity, as well as related claims of authority and legitimacy, with goals or subtexts that included the politics of self- presentation; the construction of personal, civic, national and cultural identity; the advertisement of dynastic succession, and much more? How did medieval beholders experience these messages and how did this experience contribute to the value of these objects as powerful forces of social, cultural, and political legitimization?
Intentionally broad in its focus and designed to transcend national and cultural boundaries, this session seeks papers from late antiquity through the 15th century that consider any aspect of this topic and/or shift the interpretive emphasis of what is conventionally thought of as medieval art, from aesthetic or formalist toward function, agency, presentation and reception. Susan Solway
Visualizing Identity in the Middle Ages: Coins, Seals, and Material Culture
Schneider 1325
Visualizing Identity in the Middle Ages: Coins, Seals, and Material Culture
This session explores the multifarious ways that artists visualized identity in the material culture of the Middle Ages, particularly in coins and seals as well as in other objects. How did such objects serve as vehicles for claims of identity, as well as related claims of authority and legitimacy, with goals or subtexts that included the politics of self- presentation; the construction of personal, civic, national and cultural identity; the advertisement of dynastic succession, and much more? How did medieval beholders experience these messages and how did this experience contribute to the value of these objects as powerful forces of social, cultural, and political legitimization?
Intentionally broad in its focus and designed to transcend national and cultural boundaries, this session seeks papers from late antiquity through the 15th century that consider any aspect of this topic and/or shift the interpretive emphasis of what is conventionally thought of as medieval art, from aesthetic or formalist toward function, agency, presentation and reception. Susan Solway