Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patton, Pamela A.

Series:

Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of power and resistance. Provoked by the misuse of medieval imagery in modern discussions, the contributors to this volume assess how medieval images connect to discourses of power in both the past and the present.The contributors each began with a single question: In the eyes of their makers and viewers, how were medieval images understood to assert or to resist forces of power? Their case studies come from a wide range of cultural, geographic, and historical contexts: the Byzantine, Ottonian, and Valois courts; the Umayyad and Castilian regimes of the Iberian Peninsula; the pluralistic military and commercial zones of the eastern Mediterranean; and the metaphorical as well as personal battlegrounds linked to medieval “courtly love” culture. Over eight chapters, the authors highlight patterns of visual rhetoric still evident in art today. They invite readers to contemplate how modern priorities and sensibilities might amplify, mute, or transform the discourses related to power and resistance that were threaded through the visual culture of the Middle Ages.This insightful book should be of value to anyone interested in medieval art history and art’s relationship to power and authority in society.In addition to the editor, the contributors include Heather A. Badamo, Elena N. Boeck, Thomas E. A. Dale, Martha Easton, Eliza Garrison, Anne D. Hedeman, Tom Nickson, and Avinoam Shalem.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages

1 Stones of Pretention and Acts of Resistance The Triumphal Column of Justin II

2 Ottonian Resistances

3 Visualizing Muslims and/as Black Africans in Medieval Venice

4 Saint George, Translation, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean

5 The “Holy Blood” of ʿUthmān ibn Affān: in the Great Mosque of Córdoba On Manābir, Relics, and Sunni Struggles

6 The Names of God: Art, Power, and Ritual in Medieval Córdoba

7 Power and Authority in Visual Paratext: The Case of the Grandes chroniques de France

8 Roses and Resistance: The Iconography of Courtly Love in the #MeToo Moment

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780271098555

0271098554

9780271098562

0271098562

OCLC:

1485004926