IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 236: Reconstituting the Middle Ages: Using Medieval Sources to Recover the Material Past, II - Working with Inventories
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Laura Cleaver, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin Kathryn Gerry, Department of Art History, University of Kansas |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kathryn Gerry, Department of Art History, University of Kansas |
| Paper 236-a | Things Forgotten: The Inventories of the Liber Eliensis (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 236-b | Matthew Paris and the Jewels at St Albans (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 236-c | Ivory in the Inventories of Charles V of France and His Contemporaries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Sculpture |
| Abstract | The material turn has put art history at the forefront of historical and cultural studies. Yet for medievalists the loss of so much material evidence continues to be a frustrating reality. Textual accounts of buildings, interiors, and objects, together with documentation of secular collections and sacred treasuries, appear to offer tantalizing glimpses of medieval life, but these accounts sometimes sit awkwardly with surviving objects. These linked sessions will examine how we can attempt to reconstruct the lost material past and what we might hope to gain by doing so. The second session addresses one of the major types of record of lost objects, inventories, as evidence for medieval material culture. |