Associate Professor of Art History Evan Gatti presented "Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,” presided over two sessions on Gender, Identity, & the Medieval Bishop & the Secular Clergy, and moderated the Brevia on Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England.
鈥Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history presented “Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,鈥澛燼t the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England.聽She also co-organized three聽sessions sponsored by Episcopus: The Society for the Study of Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and presided over their business meeting.
“Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera鈥 was presented as part of a session dedicated to the material culture associated with the medieval bishop. Gatti’s paper examined the meanings聽associated聽with visual representations of the vasa sacra (sacred vessels) used by bishops to celebrate the liturgy. Specifically, the paper examined聽liturgical objects such as the Eucharistic chalice and an聽altar crown聽depicted in the upper border of the聽eleventh-century wall painting preserved in聽Santa Maria Assunta in Aosta, Italy.
Gatti co-organized two聽additional sessions for the International Medieval Congress that were sponsored by聽: The Society for the Study of Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages,聽including a third installation of the #EPSBrevia, and two聽sessions dedicated to Gender, Identity, & the Medieval Bishop & the Secular Clergy.聽
鈥婫atti also presided over the first business meeting for聽聽to be held outside the U.S.
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