IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 715: Power in Practice, III: Artistic Propaganda and the Problem of Orthodoxy
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Department of History, Seattle University |
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Organiser: | Theresa Earenfight, Department of History, Seattle University |
Moderator/Chair: | Eleni Sakellariou, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Ioannina |
Paper 715-a | Alfonso II and the Liber Feudorum Maior: Artistic Propaganda at the Service of a New Dynasty (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 715-b | Symbolic Representations of Power: The Cult of the Cross in the Kingdom of Asturias (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 715-c | Orthodoxy and the Image of the Byzantine Emperor: The Troyes Casket (Language: English) |
Abstract | New studies in ritual and symbolism have informed this group of scholars and they have each responded in quite striking ways. All three focus on periods of political and religious turmoil in Spain and Byzantium, when questions of orthodoxy polarized politics and society. Examining an illuminated manuscript, a liturgical cross, and textile design, these three papers take up the challenge of works that cross formal, iconographic boundaries, yet all are concerned with the ways in which moments of political crisis can be understood by the cultural production of the age, and how this art reflects concerns for legitimacy, stability, continuity, and symbolic authority. |