CALL FOR PAPERS: Ruptures in Medieval Italian Art & Architecture. The Italian Art Society will sponsor four linked sessions on this theme at the 2013 annual Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, 9-12 May 2013.
Whether moving forwards by leaps and bounds or coming to a screeching halt, the long path of Italian medieval art includes instances of back tacking, progression and return, revival and innovation. These sessions seek papers that investigate art and architecture created at moments of rupture with tradition, with accepted norms or forms, with conventions or with anticipated developments.
Common ruptures include but are not limited to iconoclasms, proto-renaissances, Church schisms, heresies and reforms, civil strife, crusades and the Black Death. To be sure, rupture is in the eye of the beholder: an egregious instance of it may, for others, constitute continuity. Accordingly, papers may address not only what was, but also what could have been in an effort to trace the footsteps of winners and losers. These panels focus on the people, events, ideas and forms that in one way or another broke with the prevailing course of the arts in medieval Italy.
Proposals should include a one-page abstract and a completed Participant Information Form to session organizer Martina Bagnoli.
Deadline: 15 September 2012.