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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1121: Frontiers and Crossroads in Italy, II: In-Between or on the Margins?

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Project 'At the Crossroads of Empires: The Longobard Church of Sant'Ambrogio at Montecorvino Rovella (Salerno), Italy', Università di Salerno / University of Birmingham
Organiser:Edoardo Manarini, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Roma
Moderator/Chair:Thomas Brown, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Paper 1121-aThe Wisdom of the Virgin: Mary as Cultural Mediator between Carolingians and Langobards in Langobardia Minor
(Language: English)
Francesca Dell'Acqua, Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1121-bA Delicate Balancing Act: Anastasius the Librarian as Diplomat and Translator between Rome, Pavia, and Constantinople
(Language: English)
Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History
Abstract

In this second session of the strand, Francesca Dell'Acqua will speak about the visual representation of the Virgin Mary at the local church Sant'Ambrogio alla Rienna near Salerno, in a border zone between Langobardia Minor and the Carolingian Empire.