IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 515: Materiality of Death, I
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
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| Organiser: | Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Historisches Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Kühtreiber, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 515-a | The Crown of Conrad II: Re-Reading Funerary Objects in the Context of the 'Material Turn' (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Epigraphy, Liturgy |
| Paper 515-b | Materiality on the Death Bed (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 515-c | Concepts and Contexts of Deadly Winds in the Byzantine Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities |
| Abstract | Using an interdisciplinary approach, these three sessions discuss the relationship between material culture and death, currently intensely debated in archaeology, medieval history, and literary studies. Inviting junior as well as senior researchers, the sessions aim at opening up perspectives on the topic across cultural, religious, and geographic borders, which remain overemphasised in current research. This particular session combines a historian's view on funerary objects, an art historian's glimpse of the medieval death bed, and the issue of deadly winds in Byzantine literature. |