IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 1017: Natural History / The History of Nature: Appraising the 'Natural' in the Middle Ages, I

Sponsor:	Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Organiser:	Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University
Moderator/Chair:	Anke Bernau, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester
Paper 1017-a	Flowers in the Margins (Language: English) Gillian Rudd, School of English, University of Liverpool Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1017-b	Seeing Presence in Absence: Visualizing the fetus-in-utero (Language: English) Jennifer Borland, Department of Art, Oklahoma State University Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Medicine
Paper 1017-c	The Birds and the Bees: The Sexual Education of the Medieval Subject (Language: English) Isabel Davis, School of English & Humanities, Birkbeck College, Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Sexuality
Abstract	This session is devised to interrogate what we mean by the 'natural' world in the Middle Ages from our 21st-century / postmodernist and feminist perspective. In particular, it examines aspects of the visual as partaking in the 'natural' and attempts to uncover the ideological purposes for which it is employed in a range of contexts.