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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1002: Embodying Salvation in Early Medieval Ireland

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Christ on the Cross Project, University College Cork
Organiser:Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Department of History of Art, University College Cork
Moderator/Chair:Niamh Whitfield, Independent Scholar, London
Paper 1002-a'He is not there. He is risen': Presence and Absence in the Crucifixion
(Language: English)
Richard Hawtree, Department of English, University College Cork
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 1002-bThe Body Visible and Indivisible: Narrative Visions of the Crucifixion
(Language: English)
Juliet Mullins, Department of English, University College Cork
Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1002-cNo Tumulus above his Grave: Memorialising Christian Burial and Resurrection
(Language: English)
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Department of History of Art, University College Cork
Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - Celtic, Lay Piety, Religious Life
Abstract

This session proposes a reinterpretation of the way in which the body of Christ was visualized in early medieval text and image, and presents fresh interdisciplinary research upon the Passion of Christ. The Crucifixion, as enacted in the consumption of the Eucharist, was developed and explored through media as concrete as tomb slabs and stone altars, as diverse as lyrical poetry or homiletic prose. In these works, the most physical of objects was used to express the most spiritual of ideals; word was 'made flesh' for the salvation of multiple audiences.