IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 745: Making as Method: Medieval Materials, I

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:	Jess Bailey, History of Art Department University of California Berkeley Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London
Moderator/Chair:	Millie Horton-Insch, Department of History of Art University College London
Paper 745-a	Ink, Gold, and Gunpowder: Materialities of Military Representation in the High Middle Ages (Language: English) Jess Bailey, History of Art Department University of California Berkeley Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Military History
Paper 745-b	Parchment Guts: The Materiality of Late Medieval Anatomical Texts (Language: English) Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Paper 745-c	Touching Excess: Queering Femininity in the Folds (Language: English) Baylee Woodley, Department of History of Art, University College London Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies
Abstract	Materials in the hands of the medieval makers are never neutral. Choosing a material and a mode of manipulation are integral to the creation of meaning. From the pages of military manuscripts to alabaster sculptures, material culture is not only the product of techniques and technologies, but a medieval method for thinking with and about the world. Entangled materials are framed as conversations across the scholarly network with the first panel addressing specific materialities of manuscripts. How can approaching making as a method galvanise art history's dialog with medieval studies?