IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 605: Medieval Images and the Makings of Social Identity
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Anthropologie historique du long Moyen Âge, Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique de l'Occident Médiéval (GAHOM-AHLOMA), l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
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| Organiser: | Élise Haddad, Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique de l'Occident Médiéval (GAHOM), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chloé Maillet, Département d'Histoire de l’art, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Tours Angers Le Mans |
| Paper 605-a | Stag-ing Oneself: Gender and Animality in Late Medieval Emblematic (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Heraldry |
| Paper 605-b | Makings of a Community in Eschatological Images: Romanesque Sculpture (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 605-c | The Cloister of St Benet de Bages and Its Ornamental Elements: Renovatio and Varietas as Functions of Memory in the Monastic Community (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Sculpture, Monasticism |
| Abstract | Medieval images assume many functions in western medieval societies, representatives and performatives, normatives and transgressives, ostentatious and personal. In this session, we intend to question one particular role in diverse settings: the construction of social identity. Our papers will explore this question in public and private contexts, by looking at major romanesque sculptures, manuscript documents, emblematic figures and domestic paintings. At both collective and individual levels, we will examinate those sources through the concepts of community - different types of inclusive and exclusive group -, as well as gender - hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity - and self-representation. |