IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 820: The Materiality of Noble Power, IV: Material Culture
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 933 'Materiale Textkulturen', Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
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| Organiser: | Abby Armstrong, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Abby Armstrong, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Paper 820-a | A Visual Game: Meetings and Comparisons in the Imaging of Power between Francesco and Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Milan, 1450-1476 (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 820-b | Shiny Jewels, Embalmed Bodies: Material Culture, Gift Giving, and the Courtly Surface of Power Struggles in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Parzival (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 820-c | Costume and Ostentation to Legitimise the Meteoric Rise of a Nobleman in the Chronicle of Miguel Lucas de Iranzo in 15th-Century Jaén, Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Performance Arts - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | In the Middle Ages, the power, influence, and authority of the nobility could be manifested through a number of material mediums. These different artefacts were each used within specific contexts for particular purposes, to display, emphasise, and exert their lordship. The strand aims to explore how lordly authority was displayed and demonstrated through a range of sources, from material culture to documents and literature. This fourth panel focusses on the consumption and material culture, examining the displays of wealth of the Sforza dukes, gift exchange and commemoration in romance, and the use of costume as a tool of legitimisation. |