| FT-54231-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Karen Elisabeth Blough | Patronage of the Visual Arts by the Royal Abbesses of Essen and Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages | 9/1/2006 - 10/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Karen | Elisabeth | Blough | | | | SUNY Research Foundation, College at Plattsburgh | Plattsburgh | NY | 12901-2637 | USA | 2006 | Art History and Criticism | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I am writing a monograph in which I view the role of women in medieval Germany through the lens of the artistic patronage of the royal abbesses of Essen and Quedlinburg. The study opens with a chapter on medieval German history and the concept of the royal convent system. In the second chapter, I discuss the histories of Essen and Quedlinburg. The third and fourth chapters constitute an analysis of commissions that can be linked to the royal abbesses. In my final chapter, I indicate how foregrounding the material evidence for the self-image and function of the royal abbesses can further our understanding of the role of the visual arts and of their female patrons within the sacro-political context of the German Middle Ages. |