IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 624: Fear, Love, and Loathing in the Middle Ages, II: Emotions and the Body in Polemic and Community-Making
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
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: | Kimberley-Joy Knight, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Sydney |
Respondent: | Alexandra F. C. Cuffel, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Paper 624-a | Love Will Tear Us Apart: Hildegard of Bingen and Her Monastic Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Social History |
Paper 624-b | How Do You Feel about Your Abbot?: Creating Emotional Community in the Late Medieval Cistercian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 624-c | Emotional Responses to Miracles in Olafs saga helga and Thorlak saga helga (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life, Social History |
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 second half of an interdisciplinary double session, different ways of constructing community or drawing boundaries through of the use of emotions and the body are explored. |