FSU’s Strong Showing at International Congress on Medieval Studies

The Department of Art History was well represented by graduate students and alumni at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9 – 12, 2013.  Alumna Dr. Jennifer Feltman organized two sessions: New Studies of the North Transept of Reims I: Archeaology, Architecture, and Glass and New Studies of the North Transept of Reims II: Sculpture.  She also presented her paper “Royal and Clerical Iconography and the Chronology of the Reims Last Judgement Portal” as part of session II.

PhD Candidate Sarah Andyshak presented “Transfiguring Chartres: Cross-Cultural Currents in Glass” in the session Byzantium and the Latin West: Comparisons, Dialogues, and Analogies.

PhD Candidate Brad Hostetler presented “The Presence of Nature within a Devotional Context: A Case Study of a Middle Byzantine Reliquary from Mount Athos” in the session Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West II: Objects.

Doctoral student Sarah C. Simmons presented “The ‘God Bearing’ Patriarch: Liturgy as Political Symbolism in Ninth-Century Constantinople” in the session Ritual, History, and Identity: Social Dimensions of Byzantine Liturgy.