IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 307: Medieval Heraldry Revisited, III: Beyond Worldly Bonds - The Spiritual Capacity of Heraldry in the Visual World of the Late Middle Ages
Monday 1 July 2013, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Dilthey Fellowship Project 'The Performance of Coats of Arms', Volkswagen-Stiftung |
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| Organiser: | Torsten Hiltmann, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Moderator/Chair: | Torsten Hiltmann, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Paper 307-a | Hagiographical Heraldry and the Plantagenets: St George, Edward the Confessor, and the Arms of England, c. 1259-1363 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Heraldry, Political Thought |
| Paper 307-b | The Heraldry of Sin and Virtue: Coats of Arms in Images of Spiritual Combat (Language: English) Index terms: Heraldry, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 307-c | Le contenu spirituel des devises princières: le cas de Marie de Castille, reine d'Aragon (Language: Français) Index terms: Art History - General, Heraldry, Lay Piety, Political Thought |
| Abstract | In marginalizing coats of arms and leaving their analysis largely to the ancillary discipline of heraldry, medieval scholarship has robbed itself for a long time of a valuable resource. The aim of this series of sessions is to reassess medieval heraldry from a historical perspective and to cast new light on this largely underestimated group of sources. This third session will look at how, beyond persons, families, seigneuries and offices, heraldry could also refer to ideas and concepts, and will thus give new insights into political programmes, and into contemporary spirituality and mentality. By doing so, it will question the capacities and limits of coats of arms as opposed to related means of visual representation. |