IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 112: Re-Inventing Narratives: Images and Texts in Late Medieval France and Spain
Monday 11 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Elina Gertsman, Department of Art History, University of Chicago Helen J. Swift, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | James R. Simpson, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
| Paper 112-a | The Old Covenant and a New Vision: St Stephen Narrative in the Bible Moralisée (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 112-b | New Visions of the Feminine Touch: Re-Modelling Images of Women's Authority in Late 15th-Century Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Rhetoric |
| Paper 112-c | Narrative Syntax, Staging, and Permutable Woodcuts in the Celestina (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese, Mentalities, Printing History |
| Abstract | Addressing the sub-theme 'rendering the past and visualising the future', these papers explore the meaning-creating capacity of the visual component of a given narrative's presentation in a manuscript or early print matrix. They apply to different, late-medieval literary situations (sacred and secular, French and Spanish) the idea that successive, pictorial interpretations of a narrative re-invent or re-appropriate it in hermeneutically imaginative and rhetorically cogent ways. Images are devised and arranged in accordance with the narrative's new manuscript or print context: the sociocultural conditions of its transmission and reception, as well as the material layout of the page. |