IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1532: Imperium Mundi: Designing Empires, I
Thursday 10 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Department of History of Art, University of York |
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| Organiser: | Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York |
| Paper 1532-a | 'Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe': Looking at the Feet of the Evangelists in Early Insular Manuscript Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
| Paper 1532-b | 'The Christ in Majesty' Image in the Codex Amiatinus (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Theology |
| Paper 1532-c | In Hoc Signo: Institutional Eschatology in the Codex Amiatinus (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | This is the first session in a series investigating the 'Empires' structuring the medieval Christian world. The universality of empires is undisputed, from the permeating legacy of Imperial Rome, to the Papacy, reaching out from the re-born Roman centre to the ends of the earth. However, in Christian cosmology, earthly empires were caught between two polar Kingdoms which promised eschatological dominion. This session explores the Kingdom of Heaven, ruled by Christ in Majesty, considering the influence of this potent site on the everyday, how it was encountered and conceptualised, given its ultimate identity as the ideal empire beyond the earth. |