Representing
History, 1000-1300: Art, Music, History
Saturday and Sunday, 28-29
October 2006
An
interdisciplinary conference in Medieval Studies presented by
The
University of Pennsylvania
in association
with the
Index
of Christian Art, Princeton University
Modern scholarship,
particularly in historical studies, has long acknowledged the
importance of the past to medieval conceptions of the present.
This conference, however, brings art history and music into dialogue
with historical studies to draw out the strategies shared by these
fields in the realm of historical “representation.”
How was the creative representation of past practices – in illuminated
manuscripts, monumental sculpture, and architecture, but also in
musical notation, liturgical composition, and performance—understood as
both a historical and historicizing act? What kinds of agonistic
relationships did craftsmen, composers, painters and musicians
entertain with their predecessors? Moreover, what kinds of
misrepresentations did they (willfully?) perpetuate?
As Franz Schmale has put it, medieval history writing was not so much
about producing history that uses the past; rather, history was
conceived as “discourses with representations of the past.” This
conference explores those creative representations and the discourses
that embraced them.
Speakers will include:
Jaume Aurell, Universidad de Navarra
Jeffrey Bowman, Kenyon College
Susan Boynton, Columbia University
Ardis Butterfield, University
College London
Margot Fassler, Institute of Sacred
Music, Yale University
Patrick Geary, University of
California, Los Angeles
Lindy Grant, University of Reading
James Grier, University of Western
Ontario
Cynthia Hahn, Florida State
University
Joan A. Holladay, University of
Texas at Austin
Laurent Morelle, Ecole des Chartes
Larry Nees, University of Delaware
Joachim Poeschke, Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Gabrielle Spiegel, Johns Hopkins
University
Susan Reynolds, Institute of
Historical Research, London
Christine Verzar, Ohio State
University, emerita
The University of
Pennsylvania conference is organized with a two-day symposium held at
the Index of Christian Art on the Princeton University campus:
Romanesque:
Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century
Thursday and Friday, 26-27
October 2006
Speakers will include:
Walter Cahn, Yale University,
emeritus
Madeline H. Caviness, Tufts
University
Ilene H. Forsyth, University of
Michigan, emerita
Dorothy F. Glass, University of
Buffalo, emerita
Sandy Heslop, University of East
Anglia
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins
University
Bruno Reudenbach, Universität Hamburg
Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York
University
Elizabeth Sears, University of
Michigan
Mary B. Shepard, International
Center of Medieval Art
Patricia Stirnemann, Institut de
Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes
Neil Stratford, British Museum,
emeritus
Willibald Sauerländer, Zentralinstitut
für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, emeritus
Éliane Vergnolle, Université de
Besançon, émérite
John Williams, University of
Pittsburgh
Representing History
1000-1300: Art, Music, History has
been generously supported by the departments of History of Art,
Classics, German Languages & Literatures, History, Music, Religious
Studies, Romance Languages, the Center for Italian Studies, and the
University Research Fund.
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