IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 214: Reconstructing Emotions: Approaches to Portrayals of Emotion in Late Medieval Texts
Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Hilton Shepherd Postgraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Birmingham |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Pittaway, Department of English, University of Birmingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Philippa J. Semper, Department of English, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 214-a | Emotional Images, Moralising Text?: Violence to Children in Lydgate's Fall of Princes (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 214-b | Moving Texts: Practice, Emotion, and 15th-Century Devotional Manuals (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Architecture - Religious, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 214-c | Speaking of Elevation: Emotion in Hagiographic Narrative (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | Isaac Bashevis Singer warned that 'the very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect'. How can medievalist scholars negotiate between their received notions about medieval wo/man, and emotional life as it is read from medieval texts? This panel will, by way of deconstructing preconceptions about the medieval psyche, reconstruct from secular, religious, and devotional texts an emotional framework representative of that age. Each paper will also present a recent advance in theoretical approaches, from narratology to the study of text and image, as groundbreaking ways in which medievalists might literally 'get closer' to their ancestors. |