Call for Papers
/Renaissance Society of America/
Annual Meeting 24-26 March 2011, (Montreal, Canada).
Proposed Title: /The Arts of the Other Friars: Cultural Production of
the Smaller Mendicant Orders/
Contact: Joseph Hammond (University of St Andrews):
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Co-Organiser: Dr Arnold Witte (University of Amsterdam)
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This panel will examine the differing approaches and roles that
Mendicant Orders other than the Franciscans and Dominicans took to the
arts in the Renaissance. Many such smaller Orders, for example the
Carmelites or the Servites, proliferated from the fifteenth until the
seventeenth centuries, and their involvement with, use of, and impact on
the cultural productions of the time has received relatively little
study in comparison with the two largest Mendicant Orders. This panel
will take both an exploratory and comparative approach, considering such
questions as: how and in what ways do these Orders manifest similarities
to, or differences from, the artistic productions of their larger
mendicant brothers? Do the same paradigms of corporate identity and
promotion still apply? How are they influenced by specific locations?
What is distinctive about their liturgical and devotional practices that
is reflected in their cultural productions?
All areas of cultural production (painting, sculpture, music,
manuscripts, architecture, etc), locations and mendicant orders besides
the Franciscans and Dominicans will be considered.
Please send abstracts (of 150 words maximum) for a 20 minute paper.
Provide a brief CV, with full name, email address, institutional
affiliation, title of paper and any A/V requirements you may have.
Deadline: 17 May 2010.
Submit to Joseph Hammond (University of St Andrews, Scotland) at:
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