IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 214: Medievalist Visions, II: Populist Pleasures

Sponsor:	Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London
Organiser:	Sarah Salih, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:	Josh Davies, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London
Paper 214-a	Bellies and Gods: The Material and the Spiritual in Comic Medievalism (Language: English) Louise D'Arcens, Department of English, University of Wollongong, New South Wales Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 214-b	Ornaments on the Edge: 'Gothic' in Victorian Interiors (Language: English) Beatrice Wilford, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Daily Life, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 214-c	Medievalisms of Moral Panic: A Guilty Pleasure? (Language: English) James Smith, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), University of Western Australia Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General
Abstract	This session explores how the medieval is packaged as pleasure in the 19th and 20th centuries. D'Arcens examines medievalist bodily comedy; Wilford the contribution of the medieval to domestic comforts; Smith the displacement of moral panics onto the assumed ignorance of the past.