IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 713: Power and Authority in the Architecture of the Collegiate Church, I
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Ellen M. Shortell, Department of Critical Studies, Massachusetts College of Art |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ellen M. Shortell, Department of Critical Studies, Massachusetts College of Art |
| Paper 713-a | Changing Religious Affiliations at Notre-Dame de Donnemarie-en-Montois: A Possible Cause and Effect (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious |
| Paper 713-b | Land, Lordship and the Southwell Chapter House (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Local History |
| Paper 713-c | Collegiates as Funerary Sites in 13th-Century Western Europe: The Perpetuation of Authority (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Social History |
| Abstract | This session will explore the ways in which power and authority were manifested in medieval collegiate foundations in the Gothic period through art, architecture, liturgy, and local and regional politics. Major collegiate churches in western Europe have been studied as architectural monuments under the umbrella of the 'great church', but unlike parish churches, cathedrals and monasteries, secular collegiate churches have not been extensively studied as a separate category. This session asks whether it might not be fruitful to consider the collegiate church as an institution in its own right, with distinctive characteristics that separate it from the cathedral. As the primary basis of common ground among collegiate churches is their administrative structure and historical relationshio to the population, the focus in 2003 on concepts of power and authority provides a special opportunity to explore social relationships and their importance to art and architecture. |