IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 514: Fear, Love, and Loathing in the Middle Ages, I: Emotions and the Body in Polemic and Boundary-Making
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Volkswagen Foundation Project: 'Diversitas religionum: 13th-Century Foundations of European Discourses of Religious Diversity' |
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| Organiser: | Sita Steckel, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sita Steckel, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Paper 514-a | Practising Pogroms against Jewish Populations on Stage (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 514-b | Indignation, Disgust, and Pity: Using Emotions in Mendicant Religious Polemics (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Sexuality |
| Paper 514-c | Emotions and Polemics during the Great Schism (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | In the construction and perception of religious self and others, appeals to emotions and bodily reactions play a large role. But so far, there has been little interdisciplinary study comparing how such appeals worked across different genres and traditions. In this first half of an interdisciplinary double session, we aim to explore how polemical use of emotion and the body could be embedded in different genres, ranging from written treatises over exempla literature to urban drama. |