IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1207: Fragmented Body Politic, II: Gender, Genre, and the Ruler's Two Bodies in Late Medieval England

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Organiser:	Laura Crombie, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Moderator/Chair:	Joanna Huntington, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln
Paper 1207-a	'They felle on sownynge': Heroic Bodies, Male Bonding, and Elite Culture (Language: English) Rachel E. Moss, Université de Paris I Index terms: Daily Life, Folk Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1207-b	'The hertes thoght which is withinne': Hearts and Minds in the Confessio Amantis (Language: English) Victoria Blud, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Rhetoric, Science
Paper 1207-c	The 'Chambre of Venus': Domestic Space as Genitalia in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Hollie Morgan, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Social History
Abstract	This panel interrogates the interaction of gender, genre, and medieval conceptions of emotion, intimacy, and authority. Drawing on poetry and romance, the three papers move from the experience of emotion as it relates to medieval masculinity, to dismembered (political) bodies, to the overlap between the medieval chamber conceptualised as a gendered space and the proper guarding of the female body, presenting a variety of interpretations of the gendered body and its place in narratives of power.