IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 112: Sense and Sensibility: Music, Smell, and Controlling the Social Body in the Later Middle Ages
Monday 10 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of East Anglia |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Alan Bonfield, School of History, University of East Anglia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrea E. Oliver, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia |
| Paper 112-a | The Last Non-Natural: Music, the Emotions, and the Regimen Sanitatis (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Medicine, Music |
| Paper 112-b | Smell and Sight: The Senses and Health in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine |
| Paper 112-c | Policing and Great Yarmouth: Controlling the Social Body (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Local History |
| Abstract | This session will demonstrate how the emotions were influenced by external factors, most notably music, smell, and sight. It will also explore the methods used to control the social body. Particular attention will be paid to policing in Great Yarmouth which, like any medieval town or city, was envisaged by contemporaries as a living organism that was constantly breathing, adapting, and evolving. Indeed, medieval English concepts of physiology extended far beyond flesh and blood, and ideas about health not only informed the language of Church and State, but also found practical expression in the urban environment. |