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.