| Paper 805-a | Power, Form, Iconography: Politics and the Glazing of the York Minster Chapter House
(Language: English)
Charlotte Gray, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University
Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
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| Paper 805-b | Politics, Poetry, and Counsel in James III's Scotland, 1469 - c. 1479
(Language: English)
Claire Hawes, Institute of Scottish Historical Research, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
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| Paper 805-c | Images of Alexander the Great and Aristotle in the Ideological Model of the Ideal Christian King in the Treatise Erudicio regum et principum of Guibert de Tournais
(Language: English)
Elena Kravtsova, Department of Manuscripts & Rare Books, State Museum of the History of Religion, St Petersburg
Index terms: Administration, Law, Rhetoric, Teaching the Middle Ages |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
This paper will discuss the stained glass program in the York Minster chapter house (c.1290) and its relationship to Edward I's claims to power in Scotland. By examining formal links between the innovative glazing scheme of the space (which was used for meetings of parliament shortly after its completion), contemporary papal glass commissions, and illustrated legal documents produced in York in support of Edward's claims, I show that the unprecedented iconographic and formal aspects of the stained glass in fact relate to wider political trends in England in the late thirteenth century.
Paper -b:
In 1469, the first year of James III's personal rule, a new royalist ideology was consciously promoted by his counsellors. Based on claims to imperial kingship put forward in a piece of legislation of that year, this imperial ideology was manifested in foreign policy, royal iconography and changes to the legal system. This paper will re-evaluate a familiar piece of advice poetry known as 'The Harp'. It will suggest that the poet, drawing on the Ars praedicandi, used words of multiple meaning to conceal commentary on these changes within the poem, for the benefit of a politically aware audience.
Paper -c:
The main attention of my paper is the consideration of mechanisms of creation of Alexander's image in the medieval ideology and it use in historical memory. For example we can find this image in the treatise Erudicio regum et principum of Guibert de Tournais, Franciscan preacher. This treatise was written for Louis IX. The image of Alexander the Great, conqueror in the name of a peace, and his teacher, Aristotle, can be seen as part of an ideological system created to shape the future ruler of the world created by the efforts of Louis IX in the second half of 13th century in France.
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