IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 302: Impotence and Subversion, II: Sessions in Memory of Michael Camille
Monday 14 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | International Center of Medieval Art, New York |
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Organiser: | Veronica Anne Sekules, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia |
Moderator/Chair: | Miri Rubin, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London |
Paper 302-a | Images of Authority and Subjection in the Teaching of Reading (Language: English) |
Paper 302-b | Being Economic with the Truth on Trecento Rulers' Tombs (Language: English) |
Paper 302-c | The Natural Order of the Peasant (Language: English) |
Abstract | Paper -a: After the Lateran Council of 1215, the primer for teaching reading becomes standardized, and images begin to match it of Lady Grammar [Grammatica] and the Virgin Mary with books or ABC boards. These are idealized female images, but did women [mothers typically, using Books of Hours] actually initiate their children into reading for purposes of prayer? Paper -b: This paper explores the iconography of a number of Italian fourteenth-century tombs of signori in which the imagery is calculated to Paper -c: Taking up some of the themes from Camille’s works on the Luttrell Psalter, ‘Labouring for the Lord’ and ‘Mirror in Parchment’, this |