IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1338: Architecture and the Memory of Otherness on the Iberian Peninsula
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Michael A. Conrad, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich Maria Portmann, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Michael A. Conrad, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich Maria Portmann, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich |
| Paper 1338-a | Walls of Silk: Parietal Decoration and Textiles in al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts |
| Paper 1338-b | The Memory of al-Andalus: The Islamic Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General |
| Paper 1338-c | Remembering Sepharad Places, Jewish Traditions, and Contemporary Christian Music on the Model of the Organ of Valeria Church (1435) in The Triptych of the Crucifixion attributed to Lluis Alincbrot (1450) (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Art History - General, Art History - Painting |
| Abstract | We would like to focus on architectures and architectural elements of medieval Iberia that commemorate the past and relate to the complex cultural identities of its various religious and ethnic groups. How do these elements express their power, but maybe also their fragility and precarity as a result of threats of identity-loss? One central function of architecture is to commemorate. In the special case of medieval Iberia, this commemoration often relates to the past of one of its many ethnic and religious groups. Houses, palaces, churches, and monasteries, but also epitaphs, gravestones, memorial columns, or civic structures can be interpreted as materialisations of intentions of how to remember the past of these groups. We will therefore re-examine the concept of memory in architecture as an expression of otherness especially for those with precarious identities, such as the Mozarabs in al-Andalus or the Muslims and Jews under the Christian kings. |