IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 625: The Body in the City
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies |
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| Organiser: | Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Holloway, School of Philosophy, History & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 625-a | Missing Men and the Body Social in Tuscan Mountain Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Demography, Social History |
| Paper 625-b | A Priest Walks into a Bar: The Clergy in Taverns in Late Medieval Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Paper 625-c | Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul: Preaching and Food in Renaissance Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Social History, Theology |
| Abstract | 'The Body in the City' is a long-term Prato Consortium project involving researchers from three continents. It aims to develop histories of the body by examining real and metaphorical bodies in the urban context. The papers presented at the IMC focus on the issue of food: feeding the body in the context of rural-urban issues in Renaissance Tuscany, the issues surrounding the habits of secular clergy in the urban space in relation to spaces of public sociability such as the tavern, and the meaning of food, feast and fasting as metaphor in preaching in Renaissance Florence. |