ART AND POLITICS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ITALY:
GREEK, LOMBARD, ROMAN, AND FRANKISH
33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
7 - 10 May 1998
As effort to provide a history of style wanes in art history, or at least
does so as an end in itself, issues of style in art get treated more and
more as political phenomenena. Nowhere is this more apparent than in
recent work in the field of Early Medieval Italian art. Between the later
sixth and the mid tenth centuries, as the Italian peninsula was occupied
first by the Lombards, then by the Franks, Italy's indigenous Imperial
(Greek? Early Byzantine?) culture was pushed and pummeled into new shapes
and forms for new political uses -- in the Lombard regnum and the two
great central and southern Italian duchies at Spoleto and Benevento; in
the new Republic of St. Peter led by the popes in Rome; in the Frankish
Kingdom of Italy that succeeded to the Lombard one; and in the city states
and territories of south Italy still belonging to the Empire. This
session seeks papers ready to explain Early Medieval Italian visual
culture in this complex political arena.
Send abstracts (250 words) to the session organizer by September 21st,
1997 (by email or post).
For further information on the Congress please email
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Judson J. Emerick
Department of Art and Art History
Pomona College
333 North College Way
Claremont, CA 91711
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