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SUMMARY:Post-Modern Narratives and Pre-Modern Devotion: the Icon of the Th
 ree-Handed Mother of God among the Slavs\, Dr Elena Boeck - Dr Elena N. Bo
 eck\, Director of Byzantine Studies\, Dumbarton Oaks
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DESCRIPTION:The icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God defies many of our 
 expectations concerning stability of form\, legibility of imagery\, and fi
 xedness of narration. The nature of this representation is such that it un
 dermines icon theory or strains the relationship between the visible and i
 nvisible manifestations of divinity. The Virgin’s liminal third hand is 
 iconographically unstable and can materialize either in painted form\, as 
 a metal attachment\, or as an ambiguous medium. The icon's biography is si
 milarly unstable. This lecture analyses the permeability of iconographic\,
  narrative and material transmissions of this icon-type in the Slavic worl
 d. \n\nElena N. Boeck (Ph.D.\, Yale\, professor of history of art DePaul U
 niversity/director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks) specializes in 
 the arts of the medieval Mediterranean world. Her first book\, _Imagining 
 the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated Manuscrip
 ts of Skylitzes and Manasses_ \n(Cambridge University Press 2015) investig
 ated the rise of illustrated histories in the Mediterranean world from the
  twelfth through the fourteenth centuries and explores the ideological mot
 ivations for visualizing Byzantine history in Sicily and Bulgaria. She is 
 completing a second book\, _The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantin
 ople: The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Monument_\, which explores the cha
 nging identities and lasting legacies of this key imperial sculptural monu
 ment of Constantinople. It analyses the bronze horseman's changing cultura
 l signification and the monument's contribution to discursive construction
 s of Constantinople by various pre-modern audiences.
LOCATION:Domus Room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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