IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 332: British Archaeological Association, III: Conceptual Memory - Remembrance through Objects, Paintings, and Church Architecture
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| 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 332-a | Material Mnemonics in Later Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 332-b | Formal Memory: Commemorating John the Baptist (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 332-c | Penetrale amplum et infinitum: Memory as Metaphysical Refrain in English Medieval Architecture (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Abstract | Objects themselves link us to memories of people and events and this concept is explored in this final session in three ways. Our first paper explores the topic within the context of later medieval England through objects that were given. Examining the way in which the process of giving, receiving and understanding the object strengthened a memory associated with it. The second paper focuses this theme upon the concept and memory of an individual, John the Baptist, and how this was cemented through images of him across Europe. Finally, memory is conceptualised through a range of metaphysical attributes. Memory itself is a construct, and the different ways in which theologians conceived of memory in cosmological terms concludes this session. |