IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1254: The Social Significance of Memoria: Commemoration of the Dead in Urban and Noble Environments
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Memoria Online Project (MeMO), Universiteit Utrecht / Memoria & Remembrance Practices, Brepols |
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| Organiser: | Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University Tillmann Lohse, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Paper 1254-a | Taking Care of One's Memory: Noble Representation and Memory Culture in Denmark, 1400-1537 (Language: English) Index terms: Heraldry, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1254-b | Memoria Culture in the 16th-Century Low Countries: Between Commemoration of the Dead and the Abolition of Death (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Philosophy, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | The medieval commemoration of the dead united religious and social communities and shaped their identities. Through commemorative practices, foundations, artworks, but also in written works communities expressed their ideas and beliefs not only about life after death but also of their purpose and coherence as a society or social group. The higher classes in particular through the institution of masses and wills as well as the donation of gravestones and other visual objects could represent themselves in order for their memory to persist after death. But also urban communities at large could manifest themselves and thus be involved in the development of an urban identity and culture. |