IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 243: Crusades and Memory, II : Art and Material Culture
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Pagona Papadopoulou, School of History & Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Scott Redford, Department of History of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Paper 243-a | Foundation Legends: Memory and Authority in the Art of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 243-b | Between Remembrance and Necessity in Crusader-Period Architecture (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Crusades, Epigraphy, Social History |
| Paper 243-c | Coins and Seals in the Crusader Period and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Crusades, Numismatics |
| Abstract | The session focuses on the use - and abuse - of the past on the artistic production and the material culture of the Crusader states examining how it contributed to the formation of a specific identity and ideology. The first paper discusses the foundation legends associating institutions of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to the biblical past; the second paper examines the use of spolia on Crusader buildings as a means of asserting continuity with the Christian hegemony in the region; the third paper concentrates on the iconography of coins and seals as conveyers of a Crusader state ideology - even after 1291. |