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IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 724: Setting the Table: Medieval Tablescapes, Dining, and the Visual Culture of Food

Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee, New York
Organiser:Meg Bernstein, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Moderator/Chair:Pablo Ordás-Díaz, Facultade de Xeografía e Historia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Paper 724-aTreason at the Table
(Language: English)
Amy Jeffs, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 724-bThe Feasting Three-Faced Janus in 13th- and 14th-Century English Calendar Illumination
(Language: English)
Sophie Kelly, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

In connection with the broad theme of Leeds, 'Food, Feast & Famine', the Graduate Student Committee of the International Center for Medieval Art's panel examines the roles of food, dining, and production in the visual culture of all periods and geographies of the Middle Ages. Food is a thread that links together religious and secular, elites and peasants; this is reflected in the two papers. Amy Jeff's work addresses Last Supper iconography and English kingship; Sophie Kelly wil consider the three-faced Janus figure in 13th- and 14th-Century English Calendar Illumination.