IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1311: The Christian Afterlife: Places of Reward, Redemption, and Punishment
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Niamh Bhalla, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Carter, Curatorial Department, English Heritage, London |
| Paper 1311-a | Per manus sanctorum angelorum […]: The Depiction of the Soul of Ambrose in the 9th-Century Golden Altar of St Ambrogio in Milan as an Indicator of Earlier Non-Extant Models (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Hagiography |
| Paper 1311-b | Material Culture as Eschatological Allegory in Medieval Byzantine Graves (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 1311-c | Corporeal Punishment and Social Transformation: The Image of the Last Judgement at Mavriotissa Monastery in Northern Greece (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Law, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | The Eastern and Western churches held differing views on key areas of doctrine, one of which involved the soul and its place in the afterlife. In both churches, however, while eschatological consequences were still under debate throughout the Middle Ages, concepts and depictions of the afterlife were widely implicated in religious, social and even political reform. This session explores concepts of the afterlife as a place of reward, redemption, renewal, and punishment in both Byzantium and the West, and discusses how visual representations, material culture, and written sources manifested these concepts. |