IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 602: Was There Any Pleasure in Early Medieval Ireland?
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Seed Funding Scheme / Humanities Institute, University College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Elaine Pereira Farrell, School of History & Archives, University College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth O'Brien, Mapping Death Project, University College Dublin |
| Paper 602-a | Regulating Pleasure in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sexuality, Social History |
| Paper 602-b | The Pleasure and the Pain: Food Consumption and Dietary Deficiency (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Science |
| Paper 602-c | Celebrating Death or Sustaining Life: Interpreting the Material Remains from Enclosed Settlements Containing Burials in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | This is an interdisciplinary panel about the life of the early medieval Irish. The first paper will analyse the early Irish Christian regulation against pleasure. The second paper will present from an archaeological perspective an examination of diet, of the child in particular, through analysis of the juvenile skeletons of early medieval Irish children. Similarly, the third paper will analyse the material evidence from Irish enclosures which contain both settlement evidence and burials. It will consider to what extent the material evidence from these sites represents the social activities associated with the highly ritualised observance of death and burial rather than the daily refuse of those who lived there. |