IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 329: Donations of the Faithful, Cathedral Financing, and Memorialisation
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Martina Saltamacchia, Department of History, University of Nebraska, Omaha |
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| Moderator/Chair: | David Lepine, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 329-a | Ad perpetuam memoriam: The Cathedral of Milan's Patrons (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Daily Life, Economics - General, Lay Piety |
| Paper 329-b | Remembered by the Brotherhood of Our Lady: The Late Medieval Patrons of Strasbourg Cathedral (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety |
| Paper 329-c | Commissioning the Building of Chapels in a Finished Cathedral and Letting It Be Known: The Example of the Woad Sellers' Chapel at Amiens, End of the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture |
| Abstract | What role memory and memorialisation played in cathedral financing? The panel aims to answer this question by exploring comparatively donations of the faithful in cathedral construction and donors' memorialisation and commemoration in three late medieval cases: the Cathedral of Milan, where thousand donors brought hundreds upon hundreds of small and big gifts and left their name and stories sketched in perpetuity in the Register of Donations; the Cathedral of Amiens, where woad sellers commissioned memorial chapels building; and Strasbourg Cathedral, where Brotherhood of Our Lady's members financed the spires' erection and were then called to the congregation's remembrance weekly after their demise. |