IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 813: Power and Authority in the Architecture of the Collegiate Church, II
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Ellen M. Shortell, Department of Critical Studies, Massachusetts College of Art |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Department of Art, Wheaton College, Massachusetts |
| Paper 813-a | Piety versus Prerogative: The Violent History of Saint-Urbain, Troyes (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Ecclesiastical History, Local History |
| Paper 813-b | Collegiates and Parishes in Late Medieval Paris: A Struggle for Power (Language: Français) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Local History |
| Paper 813-c | Building the Chevet of St-Quentin: St Stephen, the Dean and the Bishop (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Local 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 relationship 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. |