Teaching Documents by Lindsay Corbett
This course explores the concept of sacred space in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean (... more This course explores the concept of sacred space in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean (ca. 500-1700 CE). Each week, students will be introduced to several monuments and objects that highlight the different ways that sacred space was expressed, translated, and experienced. A key goal of this class will be to think across cultural and denominational boundaries by considering case studies from multiple periods and regions throughout the Mediterranean, including the Byzantine Empire, Umayyad Caliphate, Venetian Republic, Roman Papacy, Ottoman Empire, and more.
Conference Presentations by Lindsay Corbett
XIII èmes Rencontres internationales des jeunes chercheurs en études byzantines Voir, ne pas voir... more XIII èmes Rencontres internationales des jeunes chercheurs en études byzantines Voir, ne pas voir, faire voir : La vision comme construction et comme expérience dans le monde byzantin
Unique amongst surviving examples of Mosan metalwork, the London-Berlin
Cross is the only Mosan ... more Unique amongst surviving examples of Mosan metalwork, the London-Berlin
Cross is the only Mosan enameled cross that preserves both its front and back plates. Yet, without its original core, scholarship has focused exclusively on questions of workshop style or iconographic developments in the twelfth century. Based on stylistic and iconographic similarities with other Mosan objects, most scholars hypothesize that the London-Berlin Cross once functioned as a reliquary for the True Cross. Iconography
alone, however, does not provide strong enough evidence of its original function. This
paper offers a more extensive consideration of the London-Berlin Cross’s liturgical role
and its many potential uses. An examination into the material affordances of enamel and
the artistic traditions from which it emerges, coupled with the roles of liturgical crosses in
the twelfth century, reveal how objects such as this effaced the boundaries that their
modern taxonomies often prescribe.
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Teaching Documents by Lindsay Corbett
Conference Presentations by Lindsay Corbett
Cross is the only Mosan enameled cross that preserves both its front and back plates. Yet, without its original core, scholarship has focused exclusively on questions of workshop style or iconographic developments in the twelfth century. Based on stylistic and iconographic similarities with other Mosan objects, most scholars hypothesize that the London-Berlin Cross once functioned as a reliquary for the True Cross. Iconography
alone, however, does not provide strong enough evidence of its original function. This
paper offers a more extensive consideration of the London-Berlin Cross’s liturgical role
and its many potential uses. An examination into the material affordances of enamel and
the artistic traditions from which it emerges, coupled with the roles of liturgical crosses in
the twelfth century, reveal how objects such as this effaced the boundaries that their
modern taxonomies often prescribe.
Cross is the only Mosan enameled cross that preserves both its front and back plates. Yet, without its original core, scholarship has focused exclusively on questions of workshop style or iconographic developments in the twelfth century. Based on stylistic and iconographic similarities with other Mosan objects, most scholars hypothesize that the London-Berlin Cross once functioned as a reliquary for the True Cross. Iconography
alone, however, does not provide strong enough evidence of its original function. This
paper offers a more extensive consideration of the London-Berlin Cross’s liturgical role
and its many potential uses. An examination into the material affordances of enamel and
the artistic traditions from which it emerges, coupled with the roles of liturgical crosses in
the twelfth century, reveal how objects such as this effaced the boundaries that their
modern taxonomies often prescribe.