IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1538: Imparting Sanctity: The Usage of Different Materialities to Communicate a Saint in the Late Middle Ages
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg |
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| Organiser: | Edith Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sabine Miesgang, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Paper 1538-a | To Administer Sanctity: The Significance of Copial Transmission Regarding the Canonization Process of Leopold III (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics |
| Paper 1538-b | The Babenberg Genealogy of Ladislaus Sunthaym: How Materialities Influence the Content of Text Concerning Its Statics and Dynamics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1538-c | The Babenberg Family Tree: Late Medieval Representations of a Saint and His Family (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | The late 15th century knows various forms of how to represent origin, sovereignty, and even sanctity, such as charters copied and collected in sealed manuscripts, monumental paintings representing family genealogies, or parchment tables and incunabula both containing the same information. Each object has its own form of impact related to accessibility and audience - depending on its materiality. The session therefore analyses how materialities shape both the content of the work as well as the interaction between the objects and their recipients. This will be shown through the example of the canonization of Saint Leopold in the late Middle Ages. |