IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1705: Landscapes/Seascapes, III: Conceptualising Landscapes
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University |
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Organiser: | Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
Moderator/Chair: | Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
Paper 1705-a | Fortified Settlements in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
Paper 1705-b | Political Reform and Renewal of Urban Landscape: Late Medieval Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1705-c | Landscapes of the Dead: The Vision of Edmund Leversedge (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
Abstract | The final session in this strand considers mental constructions of different landscapes. It draws on Old English poetry, descriptions of urban geography in late medieval Florentine legal, and narrative texts and a 15th-century vision of the otherworld. Key themes include the interplay of politics and ideology, the links between physical and imagined space, and the relationship between earthly landscapes and those of heaven, purgatory, and hell. All three papers stress the importance of language as a key tool in understanding concepts of the medieval landscape and their role in society. |