IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 117: Strange Things in the Medieval Garden
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Leverhulme Trust Project 'The Enclosed Garden: Pleasure, Contemplation & Cure in the Medieval Hortus Conclusus' |
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| Organiser: | Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 117-a | Sicily in Picardy: An Experimental Garden of the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Social History, Technology |
| Paper 117-b | Grafting in the Garden: Gender and Queer Identities in the Hortus Conclusus (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 117-c | Courtly Knights and Amazon Brides: Spaces, Faces, and Discord in The Knight's Tale (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Social History |
| Abstract | This session examines the medieval enclosed garden, real and imagined, as a space of strangeness and queer possibilities. Utilising the real garden space of Hesdin in Artois, as well as the garden of the imaginary in Chaucer, panellists explore how the late medieval garden functioned in terms of experimentation, boundary-crossing, and otherness. Papers will focus both on the human and botanic in their exploration of Hesdin's plants and people, the gendered possibilities of the garden, and the garden as a Foucauldian heterotopia. |