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IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 605: Canon Law, II: The Art of the Illuminated Decretals

Tuesday 15 July 2003, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Peter Douglas Clarke, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:Michael Michael, Christie's Education, London
Paper 605-aRoman and Canon Law Manuscripts at Durham Cathedral, 1140-1298
(Language: English)
Robert John Gibbs, School of Culture & Creative Art (History of Art), University of Glasgow
Index terms: Art History - General, Canon Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 605-bImaging Boniface: Medieval Illustrations of the Liber Sextus
(Language: English)
Susan L'Engle, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, Missouri
Index terms: Art History - General, Canon Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The sesson will explore the relationship between the development of legal imagery and its texts with particular emphasis on the development of the Decretals and the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII.