DU2806 Sacred space and Memoria in the Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Elisabetta Scirocco (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
21st – 25th November 2016 The class provides an introduction to the study of memorial practices in the later middle ages in Europe, focusing on the monumental and artistic production connected to death. Form, iconography and setting of sepulchral monuments will be central themes of the course. Going beyond the pure art historical issues, however, we will also explore the liturgical, social and political premises and implications of tombs. The core of the course will be dedicated to the monumental and artistic strategies applied to the tombs of rulers and social élites, focusing on some major European dynasties and on the Roman Curia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Syllabus
  • • Memoria and memorial practices in Western Christianity in the middle ages • Religious concerns, liturgical function, and the topography of entombments in sacred space • Social and political implications of tombs • Typologies of sepulchral monuments and iconographic programs in Europe • Sacral kinship and royal imagery I: the Kingdoms of France and England • Northern and Central Italy: public space and mendicant churches • Rome and the models of the papal curia • Sacral kinship and royal imagery II: the Kingdom of Sicily • The efficacy and migration of royal models: the case of Naples in the mid-fourteenth century • Sacral kinship and royal imagery III: the Kingdom of Bohemia
Literature
    required literature
  • PETRUCCI, Armando: Spazi e forme nella memoria funeraria medievale, in: Arti e storia del Medioevo, a cura di Enrico Castelnuovo e Giuseppe Sergi, III, Del vedere: pubblici, forme e funzioni, Torino: Einaudi, 2004, pp. 551-566.
  • BRUZELIUS, Caroline Astrid: The dead come to town: preaching, burying, and building in the mendicant orders, in: The year 1300 and the creation of a new European architecture. Edited by Alexandra Gajewski. Brepols: Turnhout, 2007, pp. 203-224.
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin: Tomb sculpture. Its changing aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini. Ed. by Horst Woldemar Janson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1964 [Chapter III: The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages North of the Alps, pp. 39-66]
  • BINSKI, Paul: Medieval death: ritual and representation. London: British Museum Press, 1996 [Chapter III, pp. 123-163].
    recommended literature
  • MICHALSKY, Tanja: Mater serenissimi principis: the tomb of Maria of Hungary, in: The church of Santa Maria Donna Regina, edited by Janis Elliott and CordeliaWarr, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 61-77.
  • SCHWARZ, Michael Viktor: Felix Bohemia Sedes Imperii: der Prager Veitsdom als Grabkirche Kaiser Karls IV, in: Grabmäler der Luxemburger: Image und Memoria eines Kaiserhauses, edited by M. V. Schwarz. Luxemburg: Publications du CLUDEM, 1997, pp. 123-153.
  • GARDNER, Julian: The Roman crucible: the artistic patronage of the papacy 1198-1304. München: Hirmer, 2013 [Chapter VI, pp. 109-154].
  • ROSARIO, Iva: Art and propaganda: Charles IV of Bohemia, 1346-1378. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000, 155 pages. [Chapters I, pp. 1-18, and V, pp. 53-70]
    not specified
  • BOCK, Nicolas: Künstler, Grab und Auftraggeber: zur politischen Bedeutung religiöser Ikonographie bei Grabmälern der Anjou, in: Regionale Aspekte der Grabmalforschung, editedby Wolfgang Schmid. Trier: Porta-Alba-Verlag, 2000, pp. 23-40.
  • BINSKI, Paul: Medieval death: ritual and representation. London: British Museum Press, 1996, 224 pp.
  • Grabmäler der Luxemburger: Image und Memoria eines Kaiserhauses, edited by M. V. Schwarz. Luxemburg: Publications du CLUDEM, 1997, 189 pp.
  • ERLANDE-BRANDENBURG, Alain: Le roi est mort: étude sur les funérailles, les sépultures et les tombeaux des rois de France jusqu'à la fin du XIIIesiècle. Genève: Droz, 1975, 130 pp.
  • KÖRNER, Hans: Grabmonumente des Mittelalters. Darmstadt: Primus-Verlag, 1997, 202 pp
  • HERKLOTZ, Ingo: “Sepulcra” e “monumenta” del Medioevo: studi sull'arte sepolcrale in Italia. Napoli: Liguori, 2001 (Rome 19851), 380 pp.
  • GARDNER, Julian: The tomb and the tiara: curial tomb sculpture in Rome and Avignon in the later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 110 pages.
  • LUCHERINI, Vinni: Le tombe angioine nel presbiterio di Santa Chiara a Napoli e la politica funeraria di Roberto d’Angiò, in: Medioevo: i committenti, a cura di Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Milano: Electa, 2011, pp. 477-504.
  • LEISTENSCHNEIDER, Eva: Die französische Königsgrablege Saint-Denis: Strategien monarchischer Repräsentation 1223-1461. Weimar: VDG, 2008 [Chapters I-II, pp. 1-136].
  • MICHALSKY, Tanja: Memoria und Repräsentation: die Grabmäler des Königshauses Anjou in Italien, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck& Ruprecht, 2000, 446 pp.
Assessment methods
Students are expected to read two essays and prepare a presentation to the class.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught: in blocks.
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