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Viewing texts: Word as image and ornament in medieval inscriptions

查看文本：中世纪铭文中的文字作为图像和装饰

基本信息

批准号：
AH/G000247/1
负责人：
Antony Eastmond
金额：
$ 3.23万
依托单位：
Courtauld Institute of Art
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG000247%2F1
关键词：
Viewing texts Word image ornament

项目摘要

The aim of this network is to examine texts as art. It will focus on the inscriptions that were frequently inscribed or painted on monuments of architecture in the middle ages. Long, prominent inscriptions are found on Christian and Islamic monuments from around the Mediterranean. These texts are well known and have often been examined by scholars in the past, who have sought to exploit the information they contain to help date monuments or identify their patrons or builders. Such texts have not, however, been viewed as art. Yet in many cases, the way in which the inscriptions were written means it is unlikely that they were ever designed to be read simply as blocks of text by those that viewed them. The size of the script used, the (lack of) legibility, the location (often high up or in out-of-the way locations), or simply the length of the text all indicate that the actual textual contents were only one element in the make-up and design of the inscription. Instead such texts served a series of different purposes, and the aim of this project is to explore those non-literary uses of texts.In a series of workshops over the next two years, this project will bring together a group of scholars who work on all fields of medieval studies from western Europe through to the Caucasus in the east: their expertise covers Latin Europe, Byzantium, Armenia and Georgia, Seljuq Turkey, and Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Syria. They all have interests in monumental inscriptions, but have viewed them from different perspectives; all, however, have a shared interest in the viewing as much as the reading of texts. The network will share its research into the visual uses of text, which is currently dispersed among the different cultural and religious divisions which separate research in the humanities. The core members of the group (who have all been approached informally for their willingness to participate) will be invited to three workshops at which different aspects of this research project will be discussed. The first workshop will examine ways of approaching texts as ornaments, and consider how they can be viewed as decoration on a building rather than simply being read. The second meeting will consider the interaction between the texts and the monuments they appear on. It will explore performative aspects of texts - how the layout and arrangement of texts affects the ways in which buildings are viewed and in which people move around them. It will also consider the ways in which texts institutionalise and affect communities' memories in public spaces, by putting particular texts in particular places. The final workshop will consider the ways in which multi-lingual texts can be viewed rather than read: how viewers would react to those texts in scripts and languages they could not read or recognise, and also at informal texts, such as graffiti which affect the appearance and interpretation of the buildings to which they are affixed.A further aim of this network is to explore the medieval interactions between the Christian and Muslim worlds. In the light of recent tensions between these major faiths, we believe it is important to explore the history of their cultural exchanges in more detail. The ways in which these faiths,both of which are based around the Word, have used writing in their buildings is an important aspect of this relationship. In particular around the Mediterranean there have been many centuries when these different religions have lived in the same territorial regions and shared experiences in the ways texts have been used to ornament and orchestrate buildings are an important means of exploring how There are many elements that were shared between medieval cultures over the ways in which they exploited the non-textual aspects of texts.A project such as this requires a broad range of expertises that no single scholar could master, and so is particularly suitable for a network.

这个网络的目的是将文本作为艺术来研究，它将集中在中世纪建筑纪念碑上经常刻或画的铭文上。在地中海周围的基督教和伊斯兰教纪念碑上发现了长而突出的铭文。这些文本是众所周知的，过去经常被学者研究，他们试图利用其中包含的信息来帮助确定古迹的日期或确定其赞助人或建造者。然而，这些文字并没有被视为艺术，然而在许多情况下，这些铭文的书写方式意味着它们不太可能被设计成供观看它们的人简单地阅读的文字块。所用文字的大小、（缺乏）易读性、位置（通常在高处或偏僻的位置），或者仅仅是文字的长度，都表明实际的文字内容只是铭文组成和设计中的一个元素。相反，这样的文本服务于一系列不同的目的，这个项目的目的是探索文本的非文学用途。在未来两年的一系列研讨会中，这个项目将汇集一群学者，他们在西欧到高加索的所有中世纪研究领域工作：他们的专业知识涵盖拉丁欧洲、拜占庭、亚美尼亚和格鲁吉亚、土耳其塞尔柱、法蒂玛和阿尤布埃及和叙利亚。他们都对纪念碑上的铭文感兴趣，但从不同的角度看待它们;然而，所有人都对观看和阅读文本有着共同的兴趣。该网络将分享其对文本视觉用途的研究，目前文本分散在不同的文化和宗教部门，这些部门将人文研究分开。将邀请该小组的核心成员（已非正式地与他们接触，征求他们的参与意愿）参加三个讲习班，讨论该研究项目的不同方面。第一个研讨会将探讨如何将文本视为装饰品，并考虑如何将它们视为建筑物上的装饰，而不仅仅是阅读。第二次会议将讨论文本与其所在纪念碑之间的互动，探讨文本的表演性方面--文本的布局和安排如何影响人们对建筑物的看法以及人们在建筑物周围走动的方式。它还将考虑文本如何通过将特定文本放置在特定地方，使其制度化并影响公共空间中社区的记忆。最后一个研讨会将讨论如何查看而不是阅读多语种文本：观众会如何对那些他们无法阅读或识别的文字和语言的文本做出反应，以及对非正式文本的反应，例如影响建筑物外观和解释的涂鸦，这个网络的另一个目的是探索中世纪基督徒和穆斯林之间的互动，界鉴于这些主要信仰之间最近的紧张关系，我们认为，更详细地探讨它们的文化交流历史是很重要的。这两种信仰都是以圣经为基础的，它们在建筑物中使用文字的方式是这种关系的一个重要方面。特别是在地中海周围，有许多世纪，这些不同的宗教生活在同一个领土区域，并在文本被用来装饰和编排建筑物的方式上分享经验，这是探索如何在中世纪文化之间分享许多元素的重要手段，这些文化利用了非宗教的方式。文本的文本方面。像这样的项目需要广泛的专业知识，没有一个学者可以掌握，因此特别适合网络。