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IMC 2012: Sessions

Session 1005: Fear

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Isabella Nicka, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Universität Salzburg
Paper 1005-aThe Varieties of Showing Fear in Late Medieval Visual Culture
(Language: English)
Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Social History
Paper 1005-bManaging Closeness to Death, or Visualizing Fear in the Romanian Principalities in the 15th and 16th Centuries
(Language: English)
Teodora Artimon, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Social History
Paper 1005-cBetween Fear and Control of Savage Power: Exotic Felines in Cities and at Court
(Language: English)
Thierry Buquet, Institut Français du Proche Orient, Beirut
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Social History
Abstract

The representation of fear can be traced in a variety of sources. However, these representations were realised in very different ways. The papers of the session discuss these differences in visual and textual source evidence of the late Middle Ages