IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1520: Blurred Boundaries between the Sacred and the Secular, I: Manuscripts' Decorations
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Dafna Nissim, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva |
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Moderator/Chair: | Vered Tohar, Department of Literature of the Jewish People Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan |
Paper 1520-a | Secular and Devotional Symbolism in Jewellery Depictions: A Comparison between Flemish and Italian Book Illumination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 1520-b | The Secular and the Sacred in an Illustrated Opening from the Book of Hours of Louis of Laval (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1520-c | The Economics of Penitential Pedagogy: Accounting for Sin in the Vernon Paternoster Diagram (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Theology |
Abstract | Medieval texts of various genres and images in diverse media reflect both religious and mundane themes and sacred and secular motifs. Recent scholarship relates to the relationship between them and maintains that they were always in dialogue with one another. Moreover, contemporary audiences were experienced in interpreting the texts and images that evidenced that dialogue and were ready to embrace both 'truths'. |