IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1639: Skin, II: Touching the Other
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Jonah Coman, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews / Glasgow School of Arts |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jonah Coman, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews / Glasgow School of Arts |
Respondent: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona |
Paper 1639-a | 'What beast this skin covers': Literalizing Allegories of the Body in Guillaume de Palerne (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities, Science |
Paper 1639-c | Underneath It All: Cutaneous (Mis)Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Social History |
Paper 1739-c | 'Oumbroidrid wiþ blood': Trans-Materiality of Medieval Incarnational Theology (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Theology |
Abstract | Skin, the material interface between humans and their environment, was multivalent in the Middle Ages. This series of three panels explores manuscript, animal and human skin at their intersections. The panels are connected by short exhibitions of three textile-work artifacts created by Jonah Coman in response to late medieval material devotion. Panel II explores the fine boundaries of otherness regarding animals, monsters, and creatures. David Carrillo-Rangel's response will be an interlude offering some musings on the materiality of skin. |