IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1010: Bodily Dimensions: Sensual and Supernatural Borders, I
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London |
Paper 1010-a | Hidden Brains in Sensual Bodies: Boundaries between Medieval Art History and Cognitive Science (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Science |
Paper 1010-b | Sensation (Un)Bound: Literary Synaesthesia and Cross-Sensory Perception in Dante's Purgatorio XXIV (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Medicine |
Paper 1010-c | Who Is She?: Hildegard of Bingen's Apocalyptic Woman and the Crossed Boundaries of Women's Bodies (Language: English) Index terms: Theology, Women's Studies |
Abstract | A common theme across this session is the porosity of the borders of sensation. While perception existed as a single category in medieval thought, each paper calls this unitary category into question. In doing so, cognitive science is utilised to reconstruct early medieval English mentalities; synaesthesia or sensory blending is examined in Dante's Purgatorio XXIV; and the different 'senses' of visionary experience are examined in Hildegard's Scivias. Ultimately, this session serves to problematise the medieval senses by revealing the overlapping, and sometimes contradictory, dimensions of sense, and how these dimensions blur the lines between embodiment and disembodiment, time and space. |