Sponsored session by AVISTA at International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 2018)

May 13 2018

Co-chaired by Zachary Stewart (Texas A&M University) and Amy Gillette (The Barnes Foundation), and sponsored by AVISTA

Enchanted Environs: Architecture, Automata, and the Art of Mechanical Performance I

Sunday 8:30 AM
Fetzer 2016
Organizer: Amy Gillette, The Barnes Foundation; Zachary Stewart, Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Amy Gillette, The Barnes Foundation

1. “Monstrous Machines: Mechanical Wheels of Fortune in Medieval Europe,” Oliver Mitchell, Courtauld Institute of Art
2. “Res Vana sive Misticus Jocus?”: Mechanical Wheels of Fortune and Religious Automata,” Vincent Deluz, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/Univ. de Genève
3. “Like Clockwork: Fortune, Time, and Mimetic Mechanism in Guillaume de Machaut’s MS C,” Kathleen Wilson Ruffo, Univ. of Toronto; Royal Ontario Museum

Enchanted Environs: Architecture, Automata, and the Art of Mechanical Performance II

Sunday 10:30 AM
Fetzer 2016
Organizer: Amy Gillette, The Barnes Foundation; Zachary Stewart, Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Zachary Stewart, Texas A&M Univ.

1. “The Park of Hesdin and Its Automata under the Early Valois (1384–1404),” Scott Miller, Northwestern Univ./Univ. Paris 8
2. “Space, Light, and Liturgical Plays as Sources of Inspiration for Late Gothic Altarpieces,” Johannes Tripps, Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig
3. “Late Medieval Angel Machines,” Amy Gillette

Find out more here: http://www.avista.org/2018/03/kalamazoo-sessions-2018/