IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 620: Stairways to Heaven: Transitions in Sacred Spaces - Exile, Pilgrimage, and Loss
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Hilton Shepherd Postgraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Birmingham |
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Organisers: | Emily Jane Rozier, Department of English, University of Birmingham Michael Rush, Department of History, University of Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Carol Southworth, Department of History, University of Birmingham |
Paper 620-a | Where is a Bishop Not a Bishop?: Episcopal Power in Exile (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
Paper 620-b | Pilgrim Access and Activity in Medieval Monastic Cathedrals (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 620-c | Lost on the Way?: Travelling the Silk Road after 9/11 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | If religion was at the heart of medieval society then religious space was at the heart of religion. This session explores how religious spaces define people's experience of religion through a variety of transitory contexts. We begin by examining the use of religious space in Episcopal power-relations in Anglo-Norman England. The second paper will then study the relationship of the spatial distribution and layout within specific cathedrals to the development of pilgrimage between 1100 and 1500. The session will end by discussing recent documentary films (produced in the aftermath of 9/11) which revisit religious sites mentioned in medieval travelogues. |