IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1005: Beyond Time and Space, In Memory of Miriam Czock, I: Bodies and Space
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Anja B. Rathmann-Lutz, Departement Geschichte, Universität Basel Laury Sarti, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Laury Sarti, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Paper 1005-a | Bodies and Boundaries: Claiming Space in Early Medieval Francia (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Law |
| Paper 1005-b | Body and Representation: Experiencing the Emperor's Presence in Byzantium and the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1005-c | Bodies that Rule, Bodies that Move: Body, Power, and Space in 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Gender Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The role of space as a social and cultural construct was a major topic of Miriam Czock's work and it remains important for historians working on the Middle Ages. The aim of this session is to look at this topic from a new perspective by discussing the material, and more specific bodily, aspect of spatiality. It thereby highlights the temporal dimension of the process of the construction of space and it explores the ways in which individual, political, and cultural spaces were created through 'bodies in motion'. Thus, it seeks to reevaluate concepts of medieval 'representation', 'itinerant courts (Reisekönigtum)' etc. The papers combine questions related to physicalness and space with the methods of 'body history' and 'material studies' to approach the mentioned topics from an intersectional and postcolonial perspective. |