IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1715: Initiatory Journeys and Heuristic Traversals (and Backwards) From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, III: The Reception of Borders as Crossed Spaces
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Naïs Virenque, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais, Tours |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Antoine Paris, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris / Université de Montréal, Québec |
| Paper 1715-a | Les instruments à l'épreuve des frontières: l'exemple des percussions antiques? (Language: Français) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Music, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1715-b | Representing Civilisation's Margins: Early Modern Cityscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 1715-c | Passing through Time: A Superhero in King Arthur's Court (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | What does crossing a border mean? Our session will address medieval borders through the imaginary issues of the traversal as a transformative process, and assign importance to the Ancient heritage. Is the one who crosses changed by passing through a border and backwards? How is each side of the border also transformed by one's outward and return journey? By keeping in mind that crossing borders is not necessarily a unilateral traversal, and taking into account any type of border (between two countries or spaces, but also between life and death, materiality and imaginality, sacred and profane, etc.), we will wonder to what extent crossing borders can become an initiatory journey and/or a heuristic traversal, able to change representations and to reveal the teeming reality of world and imagination. |