IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 122: Other Materials: The Role of Art and Architecture in Identity Formation in North-East Asia, 5th-13th Centuries
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Jonathan Dugdale, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham Eiren Shea, Department of Art & Art History, Grinnell College, Iowa |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 122-a | Death and Division on the Mohe-Koguryŏ Border, 5th- to 7th-Century Manchuria (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 122-b | Architects of Their Own Identity?: Looking for the Liao in Their Extant Pagodas, 907-1125 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 122-c | Imperial Hunting Garb and the Formation of Political Identity in Liao, Jin, and Yuan China (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Language and Literature - Other |
| Abstract | Medieval North-East Asia's myriad groups and polities have suffered from existing on the periphery of areas with established historiographical traditions, reinforced by later political pressures. Our understanding of these groups' identities has therefore been limited to those ascribed to them within these textual traditions. This session will challenge these accepted narratives by pitting them against material evidence across a diverse temporal range (5th - 13th Centuries). Exploring and integrating evidence from art and architecture, we prize out both the beginnings of self-ascribed North-East Asian identities and the connections underlining this 'marginal' region's recurring centrality to broader networks and developments. |