IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1515: Material Presence, Power, and Pain: Bodies in Transition
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Historisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel |
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| Organisers: | Stephan Bruhn, Historisches Seminar/Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Bianca Frohne, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Catrien Santing, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 1515-a | The Materialisation of Relatives in High Medieval Frankish Nobility: From Written Words to Graphic Representation (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
| Paper 1515-b | Transcending Boundaries: Pain as Material Presence in Early Medieval Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Medicine, Mentalities |
| Paper 1515-c | Die Another Day?: The Ruler's Body in Situations of Conquest - Anglo-Norman and Late Byzantine Literature in Comparison (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | The session focuses, in a comparative perspective, on texts and cultural practices that call attention specifically to the materiality of the human body in a moment of transition. It brings together doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Kiel University who are interested in the question of how corporeality can become a central focus within the source material they study. Each paper examines specific instances of such a materialisation, and asks what purpose they serve with regard to memorial practices, power relations, and the symbolism of suffering, death, restoration and regeneration. The session is co-organised by Bianca Frohne and Stephan Bruhn. |