Die drei für den International Medieval Congress 2013 in Leeds eingereichten Sektionen wurden in das Programm des IMC aufgenommen. Sie bieten einen aktuellen Überblick über neue kulturhistorische Zugänge zur mittelalterlichen Heraldik in der europäischen Forschung.
Die Sektionen auf dem IMC sind zugleich der offizielle Auftakt für das neue Projekt "Die Performanz der Wappen. Zur Entwicklung von Funktion und Bedeutung heraldischer Kommunikation in mittelalterlichen Kultur (12.-15. Jahrhundert)", das von der VolkswagenStiftung gefördert wird. Der IMC Leeds findet dieses Jahr vom 1. bis 4. Juli statt. Die drei Sektion sind für den ersten Tag vorgesehen.
Hier das Programm der Sektionen:
Session 107 (Monday, 1 July 2013, 11.15-12.45)
Medieval Heraldry Revisited I: Creating ties of visuality. Heraldry and the display of social relationships
Moderator: Gert Melville (Dresden)
In marginalizing coats of arms and leaving their analysis largely to the ancillary discipline of heraldry, medieval scholarship has robbed itself for a long time of a valuable resource. The aim of this series of sessions is to reassess medieval heraldry from a historical perspective and to cast new light on this largely underestimated group of sources. This first session aims to define the relationship between heraldry and history and will investigate how studying the use of coats of arms in different ways could open new perspectives on social relationships, their creation, confirmation and display in late medieval society.
- Torsten Hiltmann (Münster): Heraldry and History – an odd though promising couple. Old misunderstandings and new perspectives
- Laurent Hablot (Poitiers): Two new brothers "de Bourbon". Why did the duke of Bourbon in 1334 grant two unknown brothers nobility, his arms and his name?
- Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon): Overseas Expansion in the Mirror of Arms: heraldry as a visual code for the relationship between king and nobility in 15th-century Portugal
Session 207 (Monday, 1 July 2013, 14.15-15.45)
Medieval Heraldry Revisited II: Between city and nobility. Heraldry and the question of status
Moderator: Mario Damen (Amsterdam)
This second session will examine the heraldic practices of the city councils and patricians in Northern and Central Italy, in Cologne and in Metz, and contrasts the findings with the use of heraldry by recently ennobled families. Amongst other questions, this session will ask: what can heraldic sources tell us about visual strategies of social status and distinction?
- Christoph F. Weber (Braunschweig): Signs of Order and Revolt: heraldic communication in communal Italy
- Marc von der Höh (Bochum): Coats of Arms in the City: the case of the Cologne Geschlechter
- Jean-Christophe Blanchard (Nancy): The use of heraldic images by the patricians of Metz and by the recently ennobled men of the princes of Bar and Lorraine (15th century)
Session 307 (Monday, 1 July 2013, 16.30-18.00)
Medieval Heraldry Revisited III: Beyond Worldly Bonds. The spiritual capacity of heraldry in the visual world of the late Middle Ages
Moderator: Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon)
This third session will look at how, beyond persons, families, seigneuries and offices, heraldry could also refer to ideas and concepts, and will thus give new insights into political programmes, and into contemporary spirituality and mentality. By doing so, it will question the capacities and limits of coats of arms as opposed to related means of visual representation.
- James Hillson (York): Hagiographical Heraldry and the Plantagenets – St George, Edward the Confessor and the Arms of England circa 1259-1363
- Lukas Wolfinger (Paderborn): The Heraldry of Sin and Virtue: coats of arms in images of spiritual combat
- María Narbona Cárceles (Zaragoza): Le contenu spirituel des devises princières: le cas de Marie de Castille, reine d'Aragon (1416-1458)