CALL FOR PAPERS:
Association of Art Historians, 26th Annual Conference, 'Body and Soul'
Department of Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh, 6-9 April 2000
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Papers are invited for a session entitled 'Death and Burial,
Commemoration and Display, c. 1200-1500'
This session will seek to explore two related areas:
1) the visual and material culture relating to death, burial and
commemoration, including the choice of location for burial, the
foundation and decoration of burial chapels and mausolea, tomb design
and decoration, and commemorative images and objects.
2) the cult of saints, including buildings, images and objects connected
with the shrines of saints and their relics, and with the commemoration
or promotion of saintly individuals.
These two areas may elicit discussion of whether holy and "ordinary"
bodies are always treated differently, or whether there are many links
between the treatment of the two groups. One of the aims of the session
would be to compare practices north and south of the Alps. Therefore,
although individual papers may be tightly focussed on one area or
location, a spread of papers dealing with both northern and southern
Europe is sought.
Please send 300-word abstracts for 30-minute papers to Dr B Williamson,
at the University of Bristol (address below), or by e-mail, by Monday
22 November 1999.
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Dr BA Williamson,
Department of History of Art
University of Bristol
36 Tyndalls Park Road
Bristol, BS8 1PL
+ 44 (0)117 928 8591
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