Associate Professor of Art History Evan Gatti presented "Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,” presided over two sessions on Gender, Identity, & the Medieval Bishop & the Secular Clergy, and moderated the Brevia on Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England.
Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history presented “Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England. She also co-organized three sessions sponsored by Episcopus: The Society for the Study of Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and presided over their business meeting.
“Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera” was presented as part of a session dedicated to the material culture associated with the medieval bishop. Gatti’s paper examined the meanings associated with visual representations of the vasa sacra (sacred vessels) used by bishops to celebrate the liturgy. Specifically, the paper examined liturgical objects such as the Eucharistic chalice and an altar crown depicted in the upper border of the eleventh-century wall painting preserved in Santa Maria Assunta in Aosta, Italy.
Gatti co-organized two additional sessions for the International Medieval Congress that were sponsored by Episcopus: The Society for the Study of Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, including a third installation of the #EPSBrevia, and two sessions dedicated to Gender, Identity, & the Medieval Bishop & the Secular Clergy.
Gatti also presided over the first business meeting for Episcopus to be held outside the U.S.