Materielle Welten – Der virtuelle Salon am IMAREAL

Mittwoch, 9. November 2022  17:00 Uhr 

 

Telling Stories from Medieval Objects: The Mobility of Objects across Boundaries

Katherine Wilson, Chester University

What stories do medieval objects tell? Why might it be important to  study everyday objects from the past and how can they help the public  and educators understand their present? In this paper we will explore  the research, public and educational outcomes  of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‚Mobility  of Objects Across Boundaries‘. Using the everyday medieval objects  (shoes, keys, chests, tiles, devotional and pilgrimage badges) from the  extensive, but underexplored collections of the  Grosvenor Museum in Chester the paper will uncover some of the stories  these objects reveal and think about the ways the objects from Museum  Collections can be used and made accessible in the present to members of  the public and to students of all ages.

Vortragssprache / Language: English

Katherine Wilson is historian of the Later Middle Ages (1300-1500) interested in the shifting patterns and uses of material culture. She is the Principal Investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded network grant on the subject of ‘The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700’, partnered with the Open University and Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Her monograph The Power of Textiles: Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) reveals textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of urban social status and the cultural construction of political authority by medieval rulers.

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