IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1736: The Things They Carried: Bishops and Their Objects
Thursday 4 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Sigrid Danielson, Department of Art & Design, College of Liberal Arts & Science, Grand Valley State University, Michigan |
| Moderator/Chair: | Diane J. Reilly, Hope School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Paper 1736-a | The Cleric's Staff as a Cult Object (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Liturgy |
| Paper 1736-b | The Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 1736-c | From Objects of Desire to Sumptuary Legacy: Meanings and Uses of the Artistic Works of the Toledo Archbishops in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 1736-d | Clothes and the Bishop: Episcopal Dress in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | This session examines the roles of objects as bearers of meaning for the medieval episcopal and secular clergy. Portable items such as staffs, gems, combs, manuscripts, garments, plate, and reliquaries were performed both by their original owners and in the owners' afterlives to establish identity and shape memory. In these papers, speakers will explore the sumptuary objects of late medieval Toledan archbishops and their posthumous destinations, the construction of the Visigothic hermit Aemilian's walking staff as a cult object, bequests of vestments to sustain relationships in late medieval England, and the recreation of such objects as simulacra in new media. |