IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1511: Stranger Things, I: Interpreting the Uncanny
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Kaan Vural Gorman, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rose A. Sawyer, School of History / School of English, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1511-a | A Sorcerer's Handbook: Sakkaki's 13th-Century Arabic Book of Magic (Language: English) Index terms: Bibliography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Science |
| Paper 1511-b | Buried Power, Rising Faith: Religious Anxiety in Laxdæla saga (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1511-c | Historiographical Handling of Monstrous Births in the European Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Science, Theology |
| Paper 1511-d | New Items from the Lakes and Seas: A Mongol-Era Chinese Strange Tale Collection between Canon and Context (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Rhetoric, Social History |
| Abstract | This session interrogates the placement of medieval texts on the uncanny and supernatural within their intellectual, religious, and social contexts, during and since medieval composition, tracing the edges of the canonical and acceptable. Emily Selove exposes the problematic isolation of al-Sakkaki's 13th-century handbook of practical magic from his other works. Suzanne Valentine analyses imagery of problematic uncanny female power exposed in Laxdæla saga. H.C. Lehner exposes shifting allegorical and scientific readings of monstrous human births. Geoff Humble interrogates the narrative and moralistic effect of the addition of framing editorial comment to tales in a 14th-century Chinese Zhiguai (anomaly tales) collection. |