IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1503: Emotion, Gesture, and Forms of Codification
Thursday 13 July 2006, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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| Organiser: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Malcolm C. Barber, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 1503-a | Emotion and Gesture in Medieval Epistolarity (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1503-b | Emotion, Gesture, and the Representation of the Medieval Scholar (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1503-c | Emotion, Gesture, and Identity: The Case of St Colette of Corbie (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Abstract | This session is an attempt to analyse the theme of Emotion and Gesture in the context of three highly-coded cultural forms, not always considered in relation to this theme and yet offering important information. The first paper looks at the conventions used by letter-writers, and the encoding of emotions and relationships inscribed by formulae often regarded as 'merely' conventional. The second paper looks at the 'author-portrait' in medieval illumination, as a way of recovering ideas about the emotions and gestures of scholarship across the period of the '12th-century renaissance'. Finally, the third paper looks at the construction of emotion and 'character' within the composite documentation built up around the figure of St Colette of Corbie. |