Medieval History
PLS POST THE FOLLOWING CALL FOR PAPERS FOR COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN FEBRUARY, 2009 (LOS ANGELES, CA)
CALL FOR PAPERS: CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, CA, FEB.?09
Session Title: Taking it to the Streets: The Theatre of Public Piety
Chair: Prof. Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
ATSAH Affiated
Roadside shrines of saints and other members of the heavenly Christian
community punctuate Italy?s streets and alleyways. Anchored and vigilant just above the pedestrian?s eye-level, these effigies are often graced with fresh flowers and ex-votos, as they guard and protect their neighboring communities. Even today, prophylactic effigies housed in edicole throughout Sicily become the dramatis personae of the sacred drama during weeks of festa or celebrations of the lives of saints and the Holy Family. Specially dressed and accoutered for these events?much like their neighbors within local churches?the statues descend from their niches, awakening to participate in and celebrate the feasts of their birth and death as well as those parts of the liturgical year which commemorate the Christian foundation mythology of their communities. Their passage is signaled by a panoply of ritualized events that submerge the participants in sacred time.
These street shrines lie at an interesting juncture of portrait and iconic art, popular culture, and the faith ritual of pilgrimage, conversion, and renewal, springing from ideas regarding the inherent power of the effigy and its link to the bearer via verisimilitude. This session proposes to explore the performative role of popular shrines and images, constituting their own officially sanctioned but liminal sacred space, in the multi-layered and ritually-centered faith system of civic life, in which festa and pilgrimage are central. This session welcomes papers which explore church ritual which spills out from the walls of the church into the democratized and popular spaces of the square and street, e.g. festa, procession, pilgrimage, from the eleventh through the eighteenth centuries. While concentrating on Western European phenomena, studies of Latin American ritual are also welcome.
Pls send proposals to: [email protected]
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PLS POST THE FOLLOWING CALL FOR PAPERS FOR COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN FEBRUARY, 2009 (LOS ANGELES, CA)
CALL FOR PAPERS: CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, CA, FEB.?09
Session Title: Taking it to the Streets: The Theatre of Public Piety
Chair: Prof. Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
ATSAH Affiated
Roadside shrines of saints and other members of the heavenly Christian
community punctuate Italy?s streets and alleyways. Anchored and vigilant just above the pedestrian?s eye-level, these effigies are often graced with fresh flowers and ex-votos, as they guard and protect their neighboring communities. Even today, prophylactic effigies housed in edicole throughout Sicily become the dramatis personae of the sacred drama during weeks of festa or celebrations of the lives of saints and the Holy Family. Specially dressed and accoutered for these events?much like their neighbors within local churches?the statues descend from their niches, awakening to participate in and celebrate the feasts of their birth and death as well as those parts of the liturgical year which commemorate the Christian foundation mythology of their communities. Their passage is signaled by a panoply of ritualized events that submerge the participants in sacred time.
These street shrines lie at an interesting juncture of portrait and iconic art, popular culture, and the faith ritual of pilgrimage, conversion, and renewal, springing from ideas regarding the inherent power of the effigy and its link to the bearer via verisimilitude. This session proposes to explore the performative role of popular shrines and images, constituting their own officially sanctioned but liminal sacred space, in the multi-layered and ritually-centered faith system of civic life, in which festa and pilgrimage are central. This session welcomes papers which explore church ritual which spills out from the walls of the church into the democratized and popular spaces of the square and street, e.g. festa, procession, pilgrimage, from the eleventh through the eighteenth centuries. While concentrating on Western European phenomena, studies of Latin American ritual are also welcome.
Pls send proposals to: [email protected]
- Shared Journeys: The Confluence Of Pilgrimage Traditions
CALL FOR ABSTRACTSShared Journeys: The Confluence of Pilgrimage TraditionsAn Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored bythe Institute for Pilgrimage Studies andthe International Consortium for Pilgrimage StudiesCollege of William & MarySeptember 26-28,...
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46th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association"Peregrinatio pro amore Dei: Aspects of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"June 12-14, 2014Denver, CO Deadline for abstracts and session proposals: November...
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Sculpture and the Medieval City Session to be held at the 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13-16 May Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Organizers: Mark Rosen (University...
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Please see below the call for papers for the 25th Annual Conference of the Illinois Medieval Association to be held at St. Xavier University [Chicago, IL] in February of 2008. All proposals for individual papers and complete sessions are welcome. Call...