CONF: Medieval Textiles East and West: Identity and Exchange
October 22, 2010
University of Zurich, Hauptgebäude, KOL-F-30
Program
10:00 – 10:15 Welcoming Remarks
10:15 – 12:00 Session I: Textile Identities: Byzantium, Islam, and
Eurasian Borderlands
Branislav Cvetkovic (Regional Museum, Jagodina, Serbia), Textiles and Their Usage in Medieval Balkans: The Royal Context
Warren Woodfin (University of Zurich), Mediterranean Symbols of Power in the Costume of a Steppe Leader
12:00 – 13:30 Break for Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Session II: Western Medieval Textiles and their
Representations
Barbara Baert (Catholic University of Leuven), The 13th-century
Embroidered Antependium of Wernigerode (Germany)
Anna Bücheler (University of Toronto), Cladding the Invisible: Textile Ornament as Visual Metaphor in Early Medieval German Manuscripts
Tristan Weddigen (University of Zurich), The Vera Icon as a Textile Image
16:00 – 16:30 Concluding Remarks
Institutional Partners
Prof. Dr. Barbara Baert, Catholic University of Leuven, Iconology Research Group
Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen, University of Zurich, An Iconology of the Textile
Contact: Dr. Warren Theriot Woodfin
Website: http://www.khist.uzh.ch/neuzeit/res/conf/zurich10.html
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