IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1530: Materiality and Medievalism, I: Nationalism and the Appropriation of Medieval Objects
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | State University of New York, Oneonta |
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Organiser: | April Harper, Department of History, State University of New York, Oneonta |
Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester |
Paper 1530-a | The Tall Man's Ring: Tsar Kalojan between Medieval and Socialist Bulgaria (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Folk Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought |
Paper 1530-b | History/Divination/Hate: The Use of Medieval Runes as a Link to the Past, a Neo-Pagan Talisman, and a Thinly Veiled Sigil of Hate (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought |
Paper 1530-c | Medievalism and Nation-Building in the French Revolution (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session is focused on the use of medieval objects in nation-building and nationalism. The use of objects - in this case, jewelry, runic inscriptions, and general art - were powerful signifiers of imagined pasts. In some cases the objects helped to create an image of solidarity, while in others, the misuse of these objects created unwanted and dangerous links to the imagined past that have profound impact on the present. |