Medieval Textiles East and West: Identity and Exchange

October 22, 2010

University of Zurich

KOL-E-13

• 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

Organizer

Dr. Warren Theriot Woodfin