IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 107: Affected Bodies in the Age of Joan of Arc
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Jean Gerson Society |
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| Organisers: | Matthew Vanderpoel, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Illinois / Histoire de la philosophie médiévale, Collège de France Geneviève Young, Department of French & Italian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Moderator/Chair: | Blake Gutt, Department of French, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 107-a | The Genius of France: Joan of Arc and the Nation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Philosophy |
| Paper 107-b | Epistemologies, Bodily and Verbal, in the Trial of Joan of Arc (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 107-c | Marginal Faces in Late Medieval Manuscripts: Affect and the Unknowable (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | How were bodies - often taken as a material given - enacted, affirmed, and verified in the later Middle Ages? In this same vein, how were bodies interrogated, challenged, and disavowed? In this panel, we question the ways in which bodies, as affected sites, become objects of force, emotionalized entities, or adopted performances. We ask how Joan of Arc's (or others') embodiment is framed, questioned, or mobilized, whether in her inquisitorial trial or in later scholarship. In probing the tensions that arise between the apparent given-ness of the body and its many contestations we aim to prompt new investigations of late medieval theorizations and epistemologies of the body, gender, and discernment. |