IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1324: Representing the Sexuality of Women in Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | International Center for Medieval Art |
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Organiser: | Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language & Arts, Open University of Israel, Raanana |
Moderator/Chair: | Sherry C. M. Lindquist, Knox College, Illinois |
Paper 1324-a | Female Sexuality and its Displacements in Medieval Western Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
Paper 1324-b | Female Sexuality in Jewish Medieval Art: The Case of an Illustrated Liturgical Poem for Hanukkah (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sexuality |
Paper 1324-c | Ethical Reflections on Female Sexuality as Seen through Byzantine Secular Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Because images of sexuality have significant real-world consequences for women in patriarchal cultures, it is urgent that we have recourse to relevant historical perspectives. The papers in this session consider how the visual operated to reflect, construct, or subvert normative attitudes about women's sexuality in medieval Europe inside and outside of Latin Christianity. This session offers a comparative, synthetic, and interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of sex and images in the Middle Ages, especially as it pertains to the lived experience of medieval women. |