Medieval Textiles East and West: Identity and Exchange
October 22, 2010
University of Zurich
Preliminary Program
- 10:00 – 10:15
Welcoming Remarks
10:15 – 12:00
Session I: Textile Identities: Byzantium, Islam, and Eurasian Borderlands
- BRANISLAV CVETKOVIĆ (Regional Museum, Jagodina, Serbia)
Textiles and Their Usage in Medieval Balkans: The Royal Context - WARREN WOODFIN (University of Zurich)
Mediterranean Symbols of Power in the Costume of a Steppe Leader - 12:00 – 13:30
- Break for Lunch
13:30 – 16:00
Session II: Western Medieval Textiles and their Representations
- BARBARA BAERT (Catholic University of Leuven)
The 13th-century Embroidered Antependium of Wernigerode (Germany) - ANNA BÜCHELER (University of Toronto)
Cladding the Invisible: Textile Ornament as Visual Metaphor in Early Medieval German Manuscripts - TRISTAN WEDDIGEN (University of Zurich)
The Vera Icon as a Textile Image - 16:00 – 16:30
- Concluding Remarks
Institutional Partners
Prof. Dr. Barbara Baert, Catholic University of Leuven, Iconology Research Group
Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen, University of Zurich, An Iconology of the Textile