IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 132: British Archaeological Association, I: Architectural Memory - Remembering an Empire, Religious Communities, and Patrons through Buildings
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | British Archaeological Association |
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Organiser: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Moderator/Chair: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Paper 132-a | Visual Memories in Southern Italy: The City of Bari in and out of the Byzantine Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Art History - General, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 132-b | Church Façades as Sites of Institutional Memory in 12th-Century Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Monasticism |
Paper 132-c | Local Memory: Remembering and Being Remembered in the English Parish Church (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Art History - General |
Abstract | This session explores how architecture can be used to preserve memories of different subjects. Beginning with the city of Bari in Italy, our first paper examines how this city remembered (or did not) the Byzantine empire and its rule through its buildings. Our second paper builds on this theme by exploring the use of church facades in Spain to recall the histories of the institutions they adorn. Finally, the English parish church rounds off this panel as our final speaker discusses the commemoration of patrons within the fabric and how this maintained local memory. |