IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1019: Virtual Pilgrimage: The Construction of Virtual Journeys - Multimedia Encounters with the Divine

Organisers:	Kathryne Beebe, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford Ulla Bucarey, Universität Augsburg
Moderator/Chair:	John Marcus Beard, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
Paper 1019-a	Jerusalem behind Walls: Enclosure, Substitute Pilgrimage, and Imagined Space in the Poor Clares' Convent at Villingen (Language: English) Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner, School of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 1019-b	The Allegorical Journey in The Husband's Message: Searching for Eternal Salvation (Language: English) Silvia Geremia, Università di Pavia / Department of Italian, Trinity College Dublin Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1019-c	Do Anchoresses Dream of Electric Sheep?: Trips by Animal Avatar in the Ancrene Wisse (Language: English) Jeanne Provost, Department of English, Austin College, Texas
Abstract	This interdisciplinary session will explore the way virtual pilgrimages were constructed through text, image, and other aspects of material culture - and why. Focusing on the high to late Middle Ages, panelists will look at, among other things, how strictures of enclosure were negotiated through imagined journeys; how 'real journeys' were transformed for those who stayed at home; and how a variety of media was used to effect these virtual travels.