IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 1626: Visual Polemic and Identity in the Medieval Slavonic World: Representing Otherness

Sponsor:	Slavonic & East European Medieval Studies Group (SEEMSG)
Organiser:	Alexandra Vukovich, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:	Yulia Mikhailova, Department of Humanities, New Mexico Institute of Technology
Paper 1626-a	Motherhood and the Monastery: The Re-Envisioning of Marian Motifs in the Muscovite Life of Evfrosiniia of Polotsk (Language: English) Rosie Finlinson, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Slavic, Social History, Women's Studies
Paper 1626-b	The Visual Obliteration of Otherness: Restoring Rus' in Western Ukraine (Language: English) Olenka Pevny, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Slavic
Abstract	This session examines the visual polemics of icons and iconicity in the Medieval Slavonic world. Each paper discusses visual elements that constitute the 'other', either through a process of assimilation or retroactively, and how and why such elements appeared in Medieval Slavonic iconography.