Objects and Inventories in the Pre-modern World
15 May 2014, 11.15am to 5.30pm
Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset
House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
This interdisciplinary workshop looks beyond the function of medieval
inventories as lists of objects to explore their historical, legal and
epistemological complexity in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean.
The speakers will reflect upon the different textual and visual formats
of medieval inventories, their physical appearance and organisation, and
the different ways in which they referred to and provided information
about objects and collections. What were the legal, economic and social
functions of inventories, and what connections can be traced between
practices of inventory-making and broader epistemological developments
in the later Middle Ages? Ultimately, this workshop aims to explore the
ways in which inventories contributed to produce, organise and transmit
knowledge, and the ways in which they operated (together with the
objects that they recorded) to maintain or undermine social, religious
and political order.
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