Medieval Art as Participatory Agent (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Anne Heath

Organizer Affiliation

Hope College

Presider Name

Anne Heath

Paper Title 1

Opulent Accretion: Collecting, Editing, and Compiling the Cult of Saint Foy at Conques

Presenter 1 Name

Kristen N. Racaniello

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Graduate Center, CUNY

Paper Title 2

Relic Assemblage as Memory Palace: The Construction of Valois Identity through Jean de Berry's Reliquary Collection

Presenter 2 Name

Catherine Fernandez

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 3

Cosmic Transformations: Moon Diagrams as Sites of Eucharistic Devotion

Presenter 3 Name

Joy Partridge

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Emory Univ.

Paper Title 4

Touching the Body of Christ: Tactile Devotion and the Man of Sorrows in a Book of Hours

Presenter 4 Name

Kara Ann Morrow

Presenter 4 Affiliation

College of Wooster

Paper Title 5

Image as Reality: Reinforcing French Kingship in John of Lancaster's Pontifical of Poitiers

Presenter 5 Name

Jennifer Courts

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Paper Title 6

Research and Teaching in the Middle Ages: Thoughts

Presenter 6 Name

Cynthia Hahn

Presenter 6 Affiliation

Hunter College, CUNY

Start Date

12-5-2019 10:30 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 204

Description

In inviting a viewer to touch, kiss, move, or conceal it, the medieval object was an active agent in determining how a viewer responded to and engaged with it, thereby generating meaning. This round table will reflect on the application of critical theory such as reception theory, object oriented ontology, and thing theory to the study of medieval art, and explore the shifting ways that medieval objects are considered as active (participatory) agents. Anne Heath