IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1616: Belief, Devotion, Emotion, II
Thursday 13 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Birkbeck College, University of London |
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| Organiser: | Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) / Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 1616-a | Constructing Emotions for the Medieval Laity (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1616-b | Vocabularies of Anger and Trauma in the Early Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1616-c | Emotional Responses to David Watching Bathsheba Bathing in Late Medieval French Books of Hours (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is one of two linked sessions exploring emotion and devotion in religious practice. This session examines the construction and expression of emotional responses to religious rituals, experiences, and changes in doctrinal belief in Western Europe, c. 1200-1550. Arnold will consider ways in which, over the course of the Middle Ages, ecclesiastics constructed expectations of lay emotional responses to various religious rituals and experiences. Lutton investigates the development of vocabularies of religious confrontation in the diocese of Canterbury in the early 16th century. Walker asks how changes in the iconography of David watching Bathsheba bathing in French books of hours from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries emotionalised the reading of the penitential Psalms by a male and female audience. |