IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1003: The Materials of Memory: Commemorative Monuments and Memorial Spaces in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Aleksandra McClain, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
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Moderator/Chair: | Dawn Hadley, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield |
Paper 1003-a | Scales, Skeumorphs, and the Making of Solid Spaces: Translating the Materials of Memory in Commemorative Monuments in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Art History - Sculpture |
Paper 1003-b | Carving Out Social Identities: Monuments, Patrons, and Ideas of Place in Northern England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Art History - Sculpture |
Paper 1003-c | Geographies of Piety?: Late Medieval Chantries and Commemoration (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious |
Abstract | This session explores the social significance of funerary monuments and memorial practice in the Middle Ages, their use as tools of communication and display, and the role of material culture in defining the rules by which medieval society remembered and interacted with the dead. Medieval patrons utilized a complex vocabulary of forms, inscriptions, images, built spaces, and ephemeral practices to create their monuments, reify certain identities for themselves and their families, and generate memorial behaviour from particular audiences. These papers will explore the conscious choices made by patrons about how best to memorialize themselves, which were closely linked to overarching structures of time, place, and sociopolitical, religious, and cultural contexts. |