OTKA Saints Colloquia Series: Kateřina Horníčková

Date: 
May 19, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:30
Event type: 
Lecture
Event audience: 
Open to the Public

The Department of Medieval Studies

of Central European University

cordially invites you

 

to the public lecture of

 

Kateřina Horníčková

Institute of the Material Culture

of the Medieval Ages and Early Modern Times,

Austrian Academy of Sciences

 

on

 

REGIONAL IDENTITY AND
THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SAINTS

 

 

at 14.30 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, 2011

CEU- Faculty Tower, FT 309

Budapest, V. Nádor u. 9.

 

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Visual representations of saints were used to communicate messages to the community in diverse spaces (in the interior or exterior of churches, in religious books, in "secular" space), through anchoring them in more or less "localized" environment or through their internal structuring (legend, narrative image, iconic image, etc.). Within these various contexts, the saints were approached as intercessors and models of Christian lives, establishing proximity also by various degrees of personal and regional attachments.

The ESF-project Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints' Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities reads beyond objects and representations (saints' legends, sermons, topography, music, images, etc.) to analyze medieval saints' cults as stimuli of regional attachments and identity-construction. The project part of the Austrian Academy's of Sciences-team concentrates on the late medieval visual images of saints. The presentation introduces the chosen methodology and rationale beyond the research, the ways of data categorization, and first results of the analysis on both qualitative and quantitative levels.       

Kateřina Horníčková, PhD. (CEU), is research fellow in the ESF-EUROCORECODE Project Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints' Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities, as a  member of its Austrian subproject The Visual Representation of Saints -  Closeness, Distance, Identification and Identity, Twelfth-Sixteenth Centuries. Her research interests cover visual culture of medieval and early modern Central Europe, with a particular focus on the sign language of religious art.

The presentation is available for the project participants in the section Research Materials.