Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Spatial Confinement and Virtual Peregrinations of Women in Late Medieval Italy
Organizer & Chair: Shane Harless, Rice University
Speakers/Papers:
Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Contemplation and Assumption: Reading the Meditationes Vitae Christi in Perugia
Michaela Zöschg, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, ‘Totum parietem [...] ad corum eiusdem ubi sorores [...] dicunt horas’: Visual Journeys in Enclosure
Christopher Platts, University of Cincinnati, Images of the Vocation, Devotion, and Salvation of Poor Clare Nuns in Paolo Veneziano’s Clarissan Altarpieces for Venice and Trieste
Session Title: Italian Art for a Persecuting Society
Organizer: Theresa Flanigan, Texas Tech University
Chair: Shane Harless, Rice University
Speakers/Papers:
Rebecca A. H. Ruppar, Loyola University, Chicago, Alter Christus vs. Cathar Perfecti: Early Franciscan Visual Fortifications against Heresy
Ariela Algaze, The Johns Hopkins University, Persecution and Popular History: Crucifixes Wrapped in Parchment on the Italian Stage
Theresa Flanigan, Texas Tech University, The Torturer's Complexion: Medical Science and the Art of Othering in Late Medieval Italy