IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1302: Medieval Monuments as Technologies of Remembrance, II
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester |
---|---|
Organisers: | Meggen Gondek, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester Howard Williams, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester |
Moderator/Chair: | David Petts, Department of Archaeology, Durham University |
Paper 1302-a | Revealing the Stories in Pictish Stones: Carving Ritual, Memories, Actions, and Materials (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Art History - Sculpture |
Paper 1302-b | Subterranean Memories: Rock-Cutting Ethiopian Churches as Commemorative Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious |
Paper 1302-c | Commemorative Technologies and Transformations in Anglo-Saxon Architecture (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites |
Abstract | Medieval monuments have been explored in detail from numerous perspectives including their style, form, function, iconography, and socio-political context. The session addresses a theme that has previously received limited detailed consideration for medieval monuments but has been recently discussed by scholars of prehistoric and early historic mortuary practices. Regarding monuments as 'technologies of remembrance' – a term originally employed by the prehistorian Andy Jones - papers explore the commemorative strategies inherent in the sequences of practical and ritualised action that took place during monument-building, monument-use, as well as monument adaptation and reuse. Based on new archaeological evidence, the papers approach medieval memories and identities as constituted through these sequences of embodied engagements with materiality and place. In doing so, the papers offer case studies and new perspectives in the study of monumentality in the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th centuries. |