Academic Sessions: London 2008
Art, Performance and Place, c.1200–1500
Session Convenor:
Laura Jacobus, Birkbeck College, University of London, l.jacobus@bbk.ac.uk
Speakers:
Nicola Coldstream (Independent Scholar) The London Pageants for Henry V, 1415
Maja Dujakovic (University of British Columbia) Leopards, Lilies and Two Crowns: Genealogical chart of Henry VI and rituals of the dual monarchy
Laura Jacobus (Birkbeck College) Writer, Painter, Soldier, Saviour: Art, politics and spectacle in 14th-century Padua
Kees van der Ploeg (Institute of Art and Architectural History, University of Groningen) A gaze of Heaven. New evidence for the use of so-called Himmelloch in medieval churches in the Netherlands
Benjamin Albritton (University of Washington) Defacing the Book: Notes, scribbles, and patterns of performance in a medieval manuscript
Tim Shephard (University of Nottingham) Music and Performance Viewing in the Studiolo of Alfonso I d’Este
Louisa Connor Bulman (Independent Scholar) A Cloud of Witnesses: The suspended votive effigies at SS. Annunziata, Florence
Johannes Tripps (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig) The Priest assisted by Automatons: Altar and altarpieces with mechanical figures
Joanne Allen (University of Warwick) Liturgical Space and the Choir Stalls of San Zaccaria in Venice
Sandra Cardarelli (University of Aberdeen) The Cathedral, the Church and the City: Celebrating saints in the statutes of southern tuscan cities
Carol Richardson (The Open University) St Peter’s Inside Out: Papal liturgies and the reorganisation of the old basilica 1400–1480
Round table discussion: What can we learn of the relationships between medieval art, performance and place?
Session Abstract:
The session explores the varied relationships between art, performance and place in the late-medieval period. Papers consider the inter-relationships between art-objects or built environments and the dramatic and/or musical perfomances which centred on them or moved through and around them. Several papers present hitherto unconsidered objects of study, or offer innovative approaches which other scholars in the field may find useful. The session resolves into a number of broad themes: secular ritual and pageant, church drama, music, animation, and cult and liturgy.
Laura Jacobus, Birkbeck College, University of London, l.jacobus@bbk.ac.uk
Speakers:
Nicola Coldstream (Independent Scholar) The London Pageants for Henry V, 1415
Maja Dujakovic (University of British Columbia) Leopards, Lilies and Two Crowns: Genealogical chart of Henry VI and rituals of the dual monarchy
Laura Jacobus (Birkbeck College) Writer, Painter, Soldier, Saviour: Art, politics and spectacle in 14th-century Padua
Kees van der Ploeg (Institute of Art and Architectural History, University of Groningen) A gaze of Heaven. New evidence for the use of so-called Himmelloch in medieval churches in the Netherlands
Benjamin Albritton (University of Washington) Defacing the Book: Notes, scribbles, and patterns of performance in a medieval manuscript
Tim Shephard (University of Nottingham) Music and Performance Viewing in the Studiolo of Alfonso I d’Este
Louisa Connor Bulman (Independent Scholar) A Cloud of Witnesses: The suspended votive effigies at SS. Annunziata, Florence
Johannes Tripps (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig) The Priest assisted by Automatons: Altar and altarpieces with mechanical figures
Joanne Allen (University of Warwick) Liturgical Space and the Choir Stalls of San Zaccaria in Venice
Sandra Cardarelli (University of Aberdeen) The Cathedral, the Church and the City: Celebrating saints in the statutes of southern tuscan cities
Carol Richardson (The Open University) St Peter’s Inside Out: Papal liturgies and the reorganisation of the old basilica 1400–1480
Round table discussion: What can we learn of the relationships between medieval art, performance and place?
Session Abstract:
The session explores the varied relationships between art, performance and place in the late-medieval period. Papers consider the inter-relationships between art-objects or built environments and the dramatic and/or musical perfomances which centred on them or moved through and around them. Several papers present hitherto unconsidered objects of study, or offer innovative approaches which other scholars in the field may find useful. The session resolves into a number of broad themes: secular ritual and pageant, church drama, music, animation, and cult and liturgy.