Anne Sassin
I received my PhD in Archaeology at the University of Nottingham in 2012 on social identity and monumental architecture in the landscape in South Wales during the early medieval to Norman transition, c. AD 950-1200. This research addressed the themes of contextual use, iconography, craftsmanship, landscape placement, and the incorporation of memory in particular, utilising a multi-scalar approach, both on a regional county-wide macro-scale and the more intensive site-specific micro-level.
Currently, I am engaged as Sessional Lecturer and Honourary Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, where I contribute to early and late medieval archaeology modules.
Present on-going projects include fieldwork and community archaeology programmes in Surrey and Powys.
Address: United Kingdom
Currently, I am engaged as Sessional Lecturer and Honourary Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, where I contribute to early and late medieval archaeology modules.
Present on-going projects include fieldwork and community archaeology programmes in Surrey and Powys.
Address: United Kingdom
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Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art
The study of colour and light and their ability to constitute past social relations has revealed the many levels of their possible treatments and interpretations: they can be decorative in a trivial sense; they can be a functional camouflage used to mask features and irregularities; they can alternatively animate an area and endow it with a sense of aura; and they can be deeply symbolic. The various wavelengths of light act to define their surroundings, changing the perception of objects and transforming the space in which they are contained, and creating a variety of sensations depending on their presence or absence. The study of colour and light in a pre-modern milieu is often difficult to approach because of the danger of anachronistic perceptions and oversimplification. Yet it must be addressed, or we risk ignoring more revealing aspects about their use in material culture: how they could be employed in expressions of past identity, and their influential effect as artistic devices.
The papers in this interdisciplinary session will seek to address the range of ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art and architecture of pre-Renaissance societies, assessing their iconographic, economic and socio-cultural implications. We welcome general proposed research methodologies or specific studies of any relevant media (such as monuments, sculpture, glass, or manuscripts) from prehistory to the Late Middle Ages. The aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate what has become a truly enigmatic topic in art history.
Proposal deadline: 11 November 2013
Details and abstracts to [email protected]"
This session aims to address these issues by drawing in a multifarious range of papers and evidence, from zooarchaeological and palaeoethnobotanical, to historical sources and landscape studies, incorporating all regions and periods from ancient to post-medieval. Its objective is to explore methodologies for evaluating such an enigmatic topic, identifying instances in the archaeological record where signs of ecocentrism might be present, or as the case may be, entirely lacking.
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A widespread body of documentary evidence, supported in some measure by archaeological, exists for the importance of feasting in Celtic society in Ireland and Wales in the early medieval period. Although there are many problems with the sources used and how they should be interpreted, cumulatively they point to a long-established European tradition, as well as various divergences between the Irish and Welsh feast, discrepancies concerning the halls in which they took place, and some oddities surrounding the social significance of cattle.
Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art
The study of colour and light and their ability to constitute past social relations has revealed the many levels of their possible treatments and interpretations: they can be decorative in a trivial sense; they can be a functional camouflage used to mask features and irregularities; they can alternatively animate an area and endow it with a sense of aura; and they can be deeply symbolic. The various wavelengths of light act to define their surroundings, changing the perception of objects and transforming the space in which they are contained, and creating a variety of sensations depending on their presence or absence. The study of colour and light in a pre-modern milieu is often difficult to approach because of the danger of anachronistic perceptions and oversimplification. Yet it must be addressed, or we risk ignoring more revealing aspects about their use in material culture: how they could be employed in expressions of past identity, and their influential effect as artistic devices.
The papers in this interdisciplinary session will seek to address the range of ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art and architecture of pre-Renaissance societies, assessing their iconographic, economic and socio-cultural implications. We welcome general proposed research methodologies or specific studies of any relevant media (such as monuments, sculpture, glass, or manuscripts) from prehistory to the Late Middle Ages. The aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate what has become a truly enigmatic topic in art history.
Proposal deadline: 11 November 2013
Details and abstracts to [email protected]"
This session aims to address these issues by drawing in a multifarious range of papers and evidence, from zooarchaeological and palaeoethnobotanical, to historical sources and landscape studies, incorporating all regions and periods from ancient to post-medieval. Its objective is to explore methodologies for evaluating such an enigmatic topic, identifying instances in the archaeological record where signs of ecocentrism might be present, or as the case may be, entirely lacking.
A widespread body of documentary evidence, supported in some measure by archaeological, exists for the importance of feasting in Celtic society in Ireland and Wales in the early medieval period. Although there are many problems with the sources used and how they should be interpreted, cumulatively they point to a long-established European tradition, as well as various divergences between the Irish and Welsh feast, discrepancies concerning the halls in which they took place, and some oddities surrounding the social significance of cattle.