IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 223: Queer Textures of the Past, I: Manuscripts
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roberta Magnani, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 223-a | Gutting Medieval: On the Censoring of Sexual Gestures in Ljósvetninga saga Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sexuality |
| Paper 223-b | The Bitextuality of Digitised Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Paper 223-c | The Materiality of Queer Visionary Discourses: Fragmenting and Re-Assembling Birgitta of Sweden (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Texture is a term than can be defined as 'the quality of something that can be decided by touch; the degree to which something is rough or smooth, or soft or hard'. When talking about queer textures, these panels are intended to address the possibility of finding queer objects, materialities in the past, exploring the role these have within the frame in which they are encapsulated: narrative, social, historical, artistic, or cultural. Our intention is to demonstrate that by queering the look towards the past and our interpretation of it, and adapting the historical context to the horizon of expectations in a given time, we can obtain a clearer view of historical characters or alternative ways of bonding and creating communities. This first panel explores the different roles played by manuscripts and its uses as queer objects and which interpretations unfold when doing so. |