IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1221: Otherness of God in Late Medieval Religion
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | ScotMEMs: Scotland's Medieval / Early Modern Postgraduate Research Network |
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Organiser: | Jonah Coman, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews / Glasgow School of Arts |
Moderator/Chair: | Alicia Spencer-Hall, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London |
Paper 1221-a | Queer as Other: Queering the Wounds of Christ in Late Medieval Books of Hours (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - General, Daily Life, Gender Studies |
Paper 1221-b | 'His nakede bodi red hi-maked mid blode': The Gore of the Crucifixion in Late Medieval Imagination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety |
Paper 1221-c | Heavenly Monstrosities: The Three-Headed Trinity in the St John's Psalter, Cambridge, St John's College MS K 26 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Abstract | The Christian God is a paradoxical bundle of human and divine, mortal and immortal, physical and invisible, all-loving and violently wrathful, everywhere and nowhere. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Christian believer (and sometimes non-believers) would engage with one or more of the persons of the Trinity in the church as rood and sacrament, in the home as book and vision, and in public as Corpus Christi and miracle. This panel will engage with the radical otherness and paradoxical sameness of God in the late medieval religion: with Christ as object of queer desire, as liquefied in the bloodshed of the crucifixion, or as part of the quasi-monstrous Trinity. |