Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	612
Title	Limits of Time, Space, and Meaning: Borders and Transgression in the Medieval Art
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytetu papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków
Organiser	Dariusz Tabor, Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytet papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków
Moderator/Chair	Beata Możejko, Instytut Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański
Paper 612-a	Magical Iconography: On the Borders between Ancient and Medieval Art (Language: English) Grzegorz First, Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytet papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Art History - Painting; Pagan Religions; Religious Life
Paper 612-b	The Illuminated Psalter from Trzebnica (Wrocław, University Library, IF 440) at the Turning Point between the Time of Monks and the Era of Elites (Language: English) Dariusz Tabor, Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytet papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków Index Terms: Art History - Painting; Biblical Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Monasticism
Paper 612-c	The Duke before the Wall: Some Remarks on the Symbolic Meaning of the City Walls in Medieval Poland (Language: English) Piotr Pajor, Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytet papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków Index Terms: Architecture - Secular; Economics - Urban; Political Thought; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 612-d	Political Borders and Medieval Studies: A Study of a Polish Painting at the Turn of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Language: English) Adam Spodaryk, Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytet papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków Index Terms: Art History - Painting; Hagiography; Political Thought; Religious Life
Abstract	This sessions includes different papers, integrated by idea of borders and its transgression. Grzegorz First studies representations, taken from the magical and religious iconography of Antiquity. He searches in these images for the genesis of medieval iconography and tries to define the borders between ancient and medieval art. Dariusz Tabor emphasises some aspects of Psalter from Trzebnica (Wrocław, University Library IF 440). This psalter is a breakthrough point between the era of common book and the time of aristocratic book. Piotr Pajor examines perception of the symbolic aspects of the city fortifications in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their most basic meaning is urban sovereignty and legal borders and this is a key to interpretation of some artistic artifacts. Adam Spodaryk discusses a panel painting of Penitent St Jerome in the Desert by Michael Lancz von Kitzingen, a Franconian painter active in Krakow between 1507-1523. The paper considers the limitations of knowledge of a contemporary researcher, who tries to answer the question about the ideological content expressed by representation of nature surrounding the hermit.