IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1137: The Northern and Iberian Crusades: Visual Propaganda in the Borderlands
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens, Institute of Communication, Culture & Information Technology, University of Toronto, Mississauga |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Miguel A. Torrens, Collection Development Department University of Toronto Libraries |
| Paper 1137-a | Crusader Art in the Baltic: Warrior Saints, Palmers, and Peregrinos in the Baltic Region on the Northern Baptismal Fonts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
| Paper 1137-b | Visual Rhetoric in the Period of the Baltic Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Crusades |
| Paper 1137-c | Catalan and Castilian Representation of Conquest in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the 'Conquista de Mallorca' (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | This session explores the visual evidence created to galvanize, persuade and justify the holy wars undertaken in the borderlands of the Baltic and Iberian regions during the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years, debates have focused on the historical sources pertaining to the crusades in the these regions, with little deliberation on the visual testimony. The aim of this session is to open and extend the current discourse on what has traditionally constituted 'crusader art and architecture' in the geographic regions around the Mediterranean and include the borderlands. Participants will investigate how the crusader rhetoric and propoganda, the biblical two-sword concept (Luke 22:38) and visual associations with the First Crusade were adopted, embraced and reconfigured to promote the on-going conquests to Christianize the borderlands. |