IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1521: In Search of Contexts: The Bad Ones and the Good Ones in Late Medieval Religious Space, I
Thursday 16 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Institut für Realienkunde, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Krems |
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Organiser: | Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Moderator/Chair: | Anu Mänd, Institute of History, University of Tallinn |
Paper 1521-a | The Virtue of Ugliness?: Ill-Looking Women in Late Medieval Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Mentalities |
Paper 1521-b | The Goitre of the Torturer: Bodily Defect as a Sign for Deviation (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Daily Life, Mentalities |
Paper 1521-c | The Conversion of Sinner Mary by Saintly Martha: A Unique Iconography in the Late Medieval Magdalen Canon (Language: English) |
Abstract | The session concentrates on the analysis of the late medieval visual representation of bad and good figures in religious space and the application of contrasts and development of patterns in this regard. The pictorial language of signs will be interpreted under consideration of the variety of possible contexts. |