IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1306: Picnic in Paradise
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Leverhulme Trust Project 'The Enclosed Garden: Pleasure, Contemplation & Cure in the Medieval hortus conclusus, c. 1100-1450' |
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| Organiser: | Patricia E. Skinner, Department of History, University of Winchester / Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roberta Magnani, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 1306-a | Mysticism, Food, and Sex (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Sexuality |
| Paper 1306-b | Edible Plants in Eden (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 1306-c | Overindulgence (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Sexuality, Social History |
| Abstract | From the Garden of Eden to the Song of Songs, the enclosed garden was a site of desire, gratification and conspicuous consumption. In this session, the ambivalent space of the garden as a place of indulgence and sin, but also of pleasure and cure, will be explored in three papers engaging with literary, theological, medicinal and culinary themes. Attention will be paid to the plants found within the enclosed garden, imagined and real, and the place of the garden as a feminine, fertile space will be explored. |