IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1518: Meaning Matter: From Everyday Life to the Spirituality - Material Objects as Communication Media
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
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Organiser: | Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
Moderator/Chair: | Paul Knoll, Department of History, University of Southern California |
Paper 1518-a | The Brewing of Medieval Cracow: Reconstruction of Technology and Discovery of Meaning of the Everyday Beverage (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Technology |
Paper 1518-b | The King's Single Body: Some Remarks on Materializing the Royal Presence in 14th-Century Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 1518-c | Mythical Creatures from Physiologus: The Tension between Fantastic Materiality and Real Symbolic Meaning (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Science |
Paper 1518-d | Vegetable Masque, Mysterious, and Mystical: Visual Paradigm of Spirituality? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session is devoted to the material objects, which are carriers of symbolic meaning. In fact its materiality was a favorable feature, that allows to communicate the message of great importance. Piotr Pajor examines the strategies of visual and symbolic representation of the royal power during the reign of the last two kings of the Piasts dynasty, Wladislaus the Short and Kasimir the Great. Dariusz Tabor considers the widespread motif of medieval art - a masque with twigs. This motif is originated from the biological area. However this masque was placed in the context of the spirituality. Sławomir Dryja reconstructs the medieval technology of brewing. Consequently he tries to read the symbolic meaning and the cultural role of beer, the everyday beverage. Lucyna Rotter studies the shape and characteristics of mythical animals, registered in the 'Physiologus'. Its 'anatomy' and 'physiology' were the background of the profound, symbolic meaning. |