IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 715: Doomed by their Marginality: Censured Characters in Art and Thought
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Avital Heyman, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Avital Heyman, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva |
| Paper 715-a | Punished by her Lust: Luxuria in Byzantine Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 715-b | A Meeting in Hades: Diabolical Images in the Byzantine Marginal Psalters (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 715-c | A Human Antichrist in the Beatus Apocalypses: A Portrait of the Enemy? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Following an objective of the IMC 2004 conference, the proposed session will deal with the medieval representation of 'the other'. Cultural attitudes toward the exemplary 'other' figures of Luxuria, Satan, and the Antichrist are deeply marked by ecclesiastical and eschatalogical censorship. The pictorial tradition of these morally censured anti-heroes sets their 'otherness' in terms of opposing poles, i.e. Luxuria versus Chastity and the Virgin; Satan and the Antichrist versus Christ. Discussing the multi-layered significances of these personages contributes to our understanding of social and moral hierarchy, which excluded and marginalized them. |