1-1:50pm CST - Roundtable 8: The Power of the Sacred Image
Moderator: Pierpaolo Spagnolo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
How do visual rhetoric and religious influence intersect to shape hierarchies of cultural power? This multidisciplinary roundtable brings together graduate scholars from literary studies, history, art history, and rhetoric/composition for a conversation about religion and representation in the premodern world. Topics under discussion will include the role that unofficial political actors played in Catholic diplomatic efforts in Protestant England (Caroline Fish, Purdue); comparative theological analyses of Byzantine icons and relics (Elizabeth Shuffield, Oklahoma State); and the social and spiritual reception of the Cross from antiquity through the early modern period (Eric Smothers, Miami).
Caroline Fish (Purdue), “‘Polypragmatic Papists’: The Pro-Catholic Activism of Constanza de Acuña and Diego de la Fuente, 1613-1619”
Elizabeth Shuffield (Oklahoma State), “Icons as Relics: A Theological Understanding”
Eric Smothers (Miami), “Sacred Rhetorics of the Cross: A History of Image/Object Circulation”
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