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SUMMARY:Gaps in Archives - Professor Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
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DESCRIPTION:Archival documents do not always record and represent signific
 ant parts of past societies. The buildings of the Loge du Mer at Perpignan
 \, the Lonja in Palma and the Lonja de la Seda in Valencia reveal how the 
 construction of market halls and municipal organisations supporting trade 
 can provide insights into the underrepresented histories of Muslims\, ensl
 aved people\, or labourers. These presences are largely absent from archiv
 al records – but do emerge as significant elements in a painted panel fo
 r the Loge du Mer (1479). As a way to make sense of this apparent dissonan
 ce\, this lecture unspools the material quality of the silk traded in thes
 e halls. A new reading of the architectural structures of the Lonjas throu
 gh the lens of the material world of the cloth they contained leads to a r
 eading of the markets’ spiral columns as spines supporting a different h
 istory. Shifting the narrative from the mastery of an architect towards th
 e collectives involved in winding the threads of silk histories furnishes 
 a new view of these innovative municipal buildings.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor 
 Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
LOCATION:St John's College (The Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a13c3619-fc6c-445b-94b0-b4d3152a95b3/
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