Studies of medieval art have often focused on works of art featuring, or patronised by, those in positions of authority.听 More recently scholars have moved towards a wider understanding of the ways in which works of art established a sense of authority and impacted the identity of the communities who viewed and used them.听 However, concepts of 鈥榓uthority鈥 and 鈥榠dentity鈥, and their complex interrelationship, are rarely interrogated in a holistic way.
The two concepts are often inextricably linked.听 Identities were shaped by those in positions of authority; images endowed with 鈥榓uthority鈥 could influence how those interacting with them self- identified; patrons claimed authority through images, often forging their public identity as charitable, pious figures.听 But what does it mean to claim authority in the Middle Ages?听 And what exactly did it mean to have an identity?听 Even today, these concepts are complex and multi-faceted – most notably one self-identification can differ dramatically from that imposed by others.
In this colloquium, we want to address these topics afresh, exploring how art and material culture reflect and produce concepts of identity and authority.听 We will also consider how alternative perspectives could reinforce or subvert ideas of an authoritative voice or image.
The colloquium begins at 10.30am at 91制片厂 in Vernon Square.
Programme
10:00: – Registration opens
10:30: Welcome by organisers Jane Stewart, Laura Feigen, Irakli Tezelashvili, Florence Eccleston
Session 1 – Power of Popes and the Shaping of Monastic Identity听
Chaired by Sam Truman, Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral fellow, 91制片厂.
Emma Iadanza, Courtauld PhD student, 鈥楢 New Reconstruction of Leo X鈥檚 Liturgical Manuscripts鈥.
Vittoria Magnoler, PhD student, University of Genoa, 鈥楽tating the Authority of Aquinas. The Triumph by Bonaiuti as an Identity Manifesto of the Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella鈥.
Blanche Lagrange, PhD Student, University of Poitiers (CESCM), 鈥楾he reform at Saint-Bertin during the 10th century: new institutional authority and identity in Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, MS. 107鈥.
12.15 – 13.15: Break
Session 2 – Religion and Shaping of Individual Identity听
Chaired by Sophia Dumoulin, Courtauld PhD student.
Sophia Adams, Courtauld PhD student, 鈥樷溍瀉t tyme 镁is schrowyll I dyd wryte鈥: Canon Percival of Coverham鈥檚 Prayer Roll, Morgan Library and Museum, Glazier MS 39鈥.
Natalia Mu帽oz-Rojas, Courtauld PhD candidate, 鈥 鈥淲e first settlers鈥: The altarpieces of San Bartolom茅 and Virgen de la Antigua in the Parish Church of San Jos茅 in Granada鈥.
Lucy Splarn, PhD student in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, 鈥楾he identity of pilgrims through the art of souvenirs鈥.
14.45 – 15.15: Break
Session 3 – Church Architecture and Shaping of Community Identity
Chaired by Helen Dejean, Courtauld PhD candidate.
Florence Eccleston, Courtauld PhD student, 鈥楳oral and Political Identity in Late Medieval English Wall Paintings of Sin鈥.
Klaudia Sniezek, PhD student, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, 鈥楿nveiling Identities in Stone: Burial in the Portico of Czerwinsk Abbey鈥.
Isabelle Chisholm, MPhil student, University of Cambridge, 鈥楾he 鈥淎fterlife鈥 of The Rajhrad Dormition of the Virgin (1375-1380): defining Czech Nationaism Across Transcultural Impulses鈥.
16.45: Drinks Reception
Organised by Courtauld PhD students Jane Stewart, Laura Feigen, Irakli Tezelashvili and Florence Eccleston.听
