IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1039: The Material Dimension of Sensations, I: Physical Entities and Multisensorial Experiences
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Queen's University Belfast |
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| Organisers: | Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast Irene Tenchini, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1039-a | The Materiality of Performance in the Old English Genesis B: Visual and Oral Dimensions of Satan's Monologues (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1039-b | Anagogical Materiality in 6th-Century Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Hagiography, Mentalities |
| Paper 1039-c | Objects as Mediators of Sensory Experiences in Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
| Abstract | This session explores the importance of reciprocity between subjectivity and materiality in Medieval Studies. Material culture paves the way to further research on manuscripts, texts, and medieval objects as physical entities which portend multisensorial experiences. Their materiality enables us to disclose interrelations that provide clues to their own emotional and sensorial value and use, thus, are considered gateways to our sensorium. They empathetically hint at an entire variety of sensations, associating different perceptions to other sensorial and social encounters, acting as 'bridges' between medieval and contemporary perceptive experience. |