IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1306: Medieval Bodies Ignored, II: The Suffering Body
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Rose A. Sawyer, School of History / School of English, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sunny Harrison, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1306-a | Broken and Remade: The Bodily Experience of Medieval War (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Medicine, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1306-b | Incorporating the Physical: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Medieval Bodies (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 1306-c | The Devil at Your Breast: Representations of Nursemaids' Exhausted Bodies in Changeling Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Medicine, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Since the publication of Caroline Walker Bynum's seminal 'Why all the fuss about the body? A Medievalist's Perspective' (Critical Inquiry, 22.1 (1993), 1–33), the discourse around bodies as historical bodies has flourished. These sessions will pick out, from the many discourses that medieval people and modern historians have used to discuss the body, a few of the notes that are sometimes overlooked. This session, the second of a linked pair, explores the use of human bodies in warfare, by scholars, and as collateral damage in the stories of medieval changelings and the methods which can be used to restore bodies to their place in the historical record. |