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Les salles d’apparat des palais royaux et princiers en Europe (XIVe-XVIe s.)

State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.)

Espaces, images, rituels

Spaces, Images, Rituals

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Publicado terça, 15 de novembro de 2016

Resumo

Entre le XIVe et le XVIe siècle les monarchies européennes connurent une progressive centralisation du pouvoir, accompagnée par la diffusion d’idées politiques contribuant à créer une nouvelle image du prince. Cette image était soutenue par un ensemble de manifestations concrètes, instruments visuels d’affirmation et de construction du pouvoir souverain. Les demeures royales ou princières avec leurs salles d'apparat se trouvaient au centre de ce phénomène. Ces salles s’avérèrent fondamentales pour construire une image efficace de la monarchie. Leur décor reflétait les enjeux politiques présents lors des cérémonies, essentielles pour l’image du prince. En partant du thème central de la décoration des salles d’apparat, le colloque va dégager les liens qui se tissaient entre la décoration, l’architecture et les rituels du pouvoir monarchique dans ces salles entre la fin du Moyen-Âge et le début de l’époque moderne. 

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Argument

From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, European monarchies saw a gradual centralisation of power. This was accompanied by the dissemination of political ideas that contributed to the making of a new image of the prince, which relied on visual instruments to assert and construct the prince’s sovereign power.

Royal and princely residences were at the centre of this phenomenon. In these privileged spaces, the sovereign accommodated an expanding entourage, and received messengers and guests from other courts . Consequently, it was in these buildings that court society developed in the first place.

It is therefore not surprising that these palaces played an important part in the self-representation of the sovereign and his court, be it by the arrangement of the spaces and their permanent and ephemeral decoration, or by the common and extraordinary rituals that took place here.

In these spaces, designated state-rooms appeared to be vital for constructing an effective image of the monarchy. They were an essential, often architecturally separate part of the palatial structure. Their decors, particularly during ceremonies, reflected political interests and ambitions that were essential to the image of the prince. Outside such ceremonies, state-rooms frequently served as a meeting place of the court, or even as a point of interest to be seen and commented on by spectators and panegyrists.

By placing a particular emphasis on the decor of those state-rooms, this workshop aims to increase our insights into the relations between the architecture, decoration, and rituals of monarchical power in state-rooms from the late middle ages to the beginning of the early modern period.

A number of questions arise: What factors were involved in the choice of the decors? Which purposes did they serve, and who was the audience? What links did they establish with the space and ceremonies that took place? Who commissioned and created them? How were the decors described, interpreted, and commented on? And, taking into account questions put forward at a previous workshop in Münster, what part did heraldry play in these decors, and in the whole of other forms of representation of power?

The workshop will take place in Lisbon (Archeological Museum of the Carmelite Convent, in the old Carmelite church) and Sintra (Sintra National Palace) on 16-18 March 2017.

Submission guidelines

Papers can be presented in English or French. Proposals (500 words) and a short biographical account (max. 100 words) should be sent to heraldica@uni-muenster.de

 before 15 December 2016.

Successful applicants will be notified on 15 January 2017.

Evaluation

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizors

  • Miguel Metelo de Seixas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Torsten Hiltmann, University of Münster

Organisation

The workshop is organised by Torsten Hiltmann (Münster), Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon), and João Portugal (Lisbon) as part of the Portuguese-German research project ‘In the Service of the Crown: The Use of Heraldry in Royal Political Communication in Late Medieval Portugal’, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. It is supported furthermore by the following institutes: Palácio Nacional de Sintra; Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses; Instituto Português de Heráldica.

Locais

  • Musée archéologique du Carme à Lisbonne / Palais national de Sintra
    Lisbon, Portugal

Datas

  • quinta, 15 de dezembro de 2016

Palavras-chave

  • salles d'apparat, architecture, rituels, communication visuelle, espace, politique

Contactos

  • Torsten Hiltmann
    courriel : digitalhistory [at] hu-berlin [dot] de

Urls de referência

Fonte da informação

  • Torsten Hiltmann
    courriel : digitalhistory [at] hu-berlin [dot] de

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CC0-1.0 Este anúncio é licenciado sob os termos Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

Para citar este anúncio

« Les salles d’apparat des palais royaux et princiers en Europe (XIVe-XVIe s.) », Chamada de trabalhos, Calenda, Publicado terça, 15 de novembro de 2016, https://doi.org/10.58079/w5b

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