IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 329: The City, the Desert, and the Eremitic Ideal: Networks and Narratives in Italian and Byzantine Visual Culture
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Amelia Hope-Jones, Department of History of Art, University of Edinburgh |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Megan McNamee, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan |
| Paper 329-a | The Heavenly Ladder between East and West (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 329-b | In the Land of the Thebaids: Woman as Exemplar (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
| Paper 329-c | Experiencing the Desert in Urban Constantinople: Eremitic Retreat as Exemplar in Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. gr. 1927 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This session explores the interconnections between images and religious ideas, with a focus on the eremitic as powerful exemplar, contested way of life, and historical narrative, c.1000-1400. Papers address visual sources, from the miniature to the monumental, in relation to authoritative early ascetic literature from both the Latin and Orthodox traditions. They consider notions of gender, place, and the ascetic, exploring the perceived connections between past and present, East and West, eremo and urban convent, that are revealed in images of the eremitic life from late-medieval Italy and Byzantium. |