IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1123: The Baltic and Iberian Crusades: Visual Propaganda in the Borderlands
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 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 1123-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, Art History - Sculpture, Computing in Medieval Studies, Crusades |
| Paper 1123-b | Visual Rhetoric in the Period of the Baltic Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Crusades, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1123-c | Crusading Ideology in the Border Churches of Iberia: Muslims as African Blacks in Spanish Romanesque (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Crusades |
| Abstract | This session explores the visual evidence created to galvanise, 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 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 theology, the biblical two-sword concept (Luke 22:38) and the visual associations with the First Crusade were adopted, embraced, and reconfigured to visually promote the on-going conquests to Christianise the borderlands in the Baltic and Iberian regions. |