IMC 2026: Sessions

Session 1619: Premodern Timeliness and Timelessness, II: Time in Textual and Physical Mediums

Sponsor:	CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Organiser:	Michele Seah, School of Humanities, Creative Industries & Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Moderator/Chair:	Minjie Su, Universitetet i Oslo
Paper 1619-a	A Timely Discovery: The Judas Quiriacus Legend and the Tapestry of Creation, Girona (Language: English) Paul Aste, Department of History, Brown University Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Religious Life
Paper 1619-b	Provincial Medievalism: The Development of the Neo-Gothic Style in the Commune of Scandicci and Quartiere Four of Florence (Language: English) Leonardo Colicigno, Sistema Museale di Ateneo, Università degli Studi di Firenze Index terms: Architecture - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	Time is a construct with notoriously blurry definitions and boundaries. The artificiality of time can evoke anything from comforting nostalgia to worrying anachronism. This session is one of three sessions that deal with the unfocused and unreal aspects of premodern temporality, looking at a range of ways in which time can be constructed, depicted, examined, and deconstructed. The sessions focus on a variety of mediums and canvases, including literature, legend, history and historiography, architecture, and landscape.