IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 822: Materialities at Birkbeck, III: Dwelling in Medieval Landscapes across Text, Material, Space
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
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| Organiser: | Kathryn Franklin, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Caroline Goodson, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 822-a | Inscribed Landscapes and Unwritten Subjects: Medieval Spaces in Vayots Dzor, Armenia (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Epigraphy, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 822-b | Landscape as a Mnemonic for Social Values, Relationships, and Structures across the Longue Durée, c. 400-1300: Examples from Cambridgeshire (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Law |
| Paper 822-c | The Terroir of Vice or Virtue: Belonging and Religious Conversion in Mewat, North India (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This panel enquires into the modes of our re/construction of medieval imagined landscapes as mediated by material data, including texts, architectural inscriptions, artistic depictions, maps, and objects, as well as built, managed, and dwelled-in spaces. As we disciplinarily embrace a global medieval as a scale of study, a starting point is thinking through the material mechanisms by which people in the medieval period (defined expansively as the 5th through the 15th centuries AD) imagined their worlds, and imagined themselves within those worlds. How do spaces and landscapes defined through law, practice, cosmography and/or narrative variably constitute medieval subjects? |