Material Imagination/Medieval Art I (IDHP 303)

Term: 2019-2020 Fall Term

Faculty

Catherine A. Meighan SSJShow MyInfo popup for Catherine A. Meighan SSJ

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Marie S GroganShow MyInfo popup for Marie S Grogan

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Dr. Kathleen Duffy SSJShow MyInfo popup for Dr. Kathleen Duffy SSJ

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Schedule

Fri, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (8/26/2019 - 12/13/2019) Location: MAIN MH 219

Description

Recent scholarship on the cultural life and production of the Middle Ages employs the lens of “materiality” to explore the “significance of things” for medieval people. What do the crafted objects of their daily life—the cloth, the pilgrim’s badge, the armor, the Domesday book, the moat of a castle—and the created expressions of their highest literary and artistic ideals—the tapestry, the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript, the jewelry, the illuminated Book of Hours, the stained glass windows of a cathedral—tell us about medieval people and their worldviews? We will pay special attention to the manuscripts of this period both as physical objects themselves and as repositories for the highly-wrought poetry, tales, treatises, and dramas that imaginatively represent both the material world as their creators experienced it and the spiritual realities it revealed to them. Meets Core Literature/Art Requirement.