IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 705: My Precious: Precious Objects in the Middle Ages, III
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Abby Armstrong, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University Nicole Corrigan, Department of Art History, Emory University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Juliana Amorim Goskes, Department of History, New York University |
| Paper 705-a | Showing Off: Materiality in Late Gothic Corpus Christi Processions (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Liturgy, Social History |
| Paper 705-b | Eleanor of Provence Liked It and She Put a Ring on It: Queenship and Agency in the 13th-Century Wardrobe and Household Accounts (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 705-c | Reworking Treasures in Painted Chapels (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting |
| Abstract | Throughout the Middle Ages, precious materials were forged into works of art that played a central role in medieval life. Churches accumulated glimmering hoards of reliquaries. Royal inventories provide descriptions of jewellery and illuminated manuscripts that rarely survive. Nobles and ecclesiastics exchanged exquisite gifts to forge bonds or make political statements. This panel explores the political uses of precious objects. These papers examine the status and materiality of late-medieval Corpus Christi processions, Eleanor of Provence's patronage and female agency, and the inclusion of depictions of treasury objects in 15th-century painted chapels in Italy. |