Armin Bergmeier: The Pastiche Past

ifk Mondaylecture

Armin Bergmeier: The Pastiche Past. Society, Heritage, and Place in the Premodern Period

This talk explores the potential of critical heritage studies to question ownership and the relationship between identity and material culture in the premodern Mediterranean as well as alternative ways of conceiving of heritage linked to place and geography. Displays of reused spolia on the facades of buildings were potent expressions of the continuity of the past in the medieval present. While the visually older spolia were perceived as deriving from the past, they were also understood as belonging to the present, not as divided from it.

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ifk - Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien

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