IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1736: Crisis and Invention of the Past in Italian Port Cities, 13th-14th Centuries
Thursday 4 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Organisers: | Ilaria Molteni, Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno Valeria Russo, Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno / Sorbonne Université, Paris |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Nicolas Bock, Section d'histoire de l'art, Université de Lausanne |
| Paper 1736-a | Rethinking Origins: The Venetian Chronicles and the Myth of Antenor during the Crisis of the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Local History and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1736-b | History and Geography in Time of Crisis: 14th-Century Genoese Maps and Venetian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1736-c | Venetian Art, Crisis, and New Markets: The Gaibana Master across Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Crusades, Economics - Trade and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session intends to determine how social and political crisis represented a trigger in the redefinition of historical self-perception within three main Italian port cities during the late Middle Ages. In particular, the goal is to highlight how, through the creation of fictional past narratives, Genoa, Pisa and Venice aimed at minimizing their military failures and their internal conflicts, while emphasising prestigious pedigrees and mythical origins, and claiming a hegemonic role throughout the Mediterranean culture. Each paper will determine and analyse: political strategies exploiting artistic and literary representations provided by ancient myths and chivalric legends; the interference between Genoa, Pisa and Venice’s role as trade centres and their artistic production; the use of the literary and iconographic production for celebrating the uniqueness of their identities in time of crisis. |