IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 117: Analysing the Tangible to Decipher the Intangible: Approaches to Materiality in Medieval Spain
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Hannah Thomson, Department of Art History & Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Tori Schmitt, Department of Art History & Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Paper 117-a | Masons' Marks: Sources of Information for the Organisation of Medieval Workshops (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 117-b | Piedra sangrante and Spaces of Privilege in the Cathedral of Ávila (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | How did materiality form networks of privilege and exclusion in the Middle Ages? This session gathers the diverse perspectives of three advanced graduate students as they approach the ways in which materiality was harnessed to create and express privilege and exclusion in social, economic, and religious spheres of medieval Iberian life. Textiles and clothing communicated social status in lay society. Guilds of stone masons relied on physical markers in stones to ensure payment. Sacred space was communicated with distinct materials in cathedral architecture. By combining these disparate perspectives into one session, it allows for a holistic approach to consider how complex networks of inclusion and exclusion were formed through materiality in medieval Spanish society and beyond. |