IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 818: Food for the Stomach, and the Soul
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | British Archaeological Association |
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| Organiser: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 818-a | Gluttony: Beyond Feasting (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Daily Life |
| Paper 818-b | The Bodily Rhetoric and Processes in the Punishments of Gluttons (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Paper 818-c | The Crypt at Notre-Dame de Chartres: Food for the Salvation of Souls (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session considers the act of eating. The definitions of gluttony will be examined first through a variety of visual case studies as the medieval definition of gluttony stretched beyond the act of excessive eating and drinking. With the sin itself introduced, its punishments will be explored through two 12th-century sculptural examples. Finally, food for the soul will considered through the example of the crypt of Notre-Dame de Chartres. |