IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 115: Reconsidering Disciplinary Conventions and Unwritten Rules
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Society, Paris |
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| Organiser: | Mary Franklin-Brown, Department of French & Italian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emma Campbell, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick |
| Paper 115-a | The Textual Transmission and Judicial Reception of Philip the Fair's Legislation on Duels (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Military History, Political Thought |
| Paper 115-b | Images that Re-Read Texts: Illustration Strategies in Manuscripts of Miracles of the Virgin (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 115-c | The Speculum maius: Document or Monument of Scholastic Intellectual Culture? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | Each discipline has conventions and methodologies that distinguish it from other disciplines and constitute unwritten rules for how the objects of research may be understood. These rules are periodically challenged and revised, with the result that familiar objects appear in a new light and the relations between individual disciplines shift. In the proposed panel, a historian, an art historian, and a literary critic, representing universities in three different countries, will present case studies, all drawn from later medieval France, of how shifts in disciplinary conventions make possible new ways of understanding material and new interdisciplinary discussions. |