IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 330: Borders and Boundaries, Real and Imagined, in Late Medieval Italy
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Leeds Centre for Dante Studies / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Elisabeth Trischler, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Samuel Bradley, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 330-a | Dante's Hope between Peraldo and St Bonaventura (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 330-b | The Breaking of Boundaries and Bonds in Dante's Ante-Purgatory (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Social History |
| Paper 330-c | Literal and Metaphorical Boundaries in Dante Alighieri's Life and Commedia (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Italian |
| Abstract | Many Italian cities experienced phases of urban expansion in the late medieval period, altering not only the shape and layout of the city but also the experience of its inhabitants and their identity within it. These expansions created various dichotomies of urban versus rural space, citizen versus outsider, profane versus sacred, etc. This session seeks to understand how real or imagined borders altered perceptions of either individual or communal identity and call into question the rigidity and usefulness of these dichotomies. What defines a citizen from an outsider? When and how does a space transform from the profane to the sacred? Can a space be both profane and sacred? |