IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 301: Colouring Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on the Borders of Manuscripts
Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Emily Shartrand, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Delaware |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Christine Bachman, Department of Art History, University of Delaware |
| Paper 301-a | Networked Borders: A Computational Analysis of Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 301-b | Visual Genealogies in Manuscript Borders: Heraldic Decoration as Commemorative Device (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Genealogy and Prosopography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Paper 301-c | Denigrated Images: 'Marginalia' and the mise-en-page (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | For many years, scholars of medieval manuscripts understood borders as elements of lesser importance, placing emphasis on the text and 'primary' image cycles found within the borders and defining art beyond them as 'marginal' and therefore marginalized. While scholars of marginalia have worked over the past several decades to dispel such notions, the physical borders themselves have received less attention. This session expands the definition of manuscript borders by examining how they surround and interact with margins and the rest of the manuscript page to become sites allowing for great freedom in expression, movement, and exchange. |