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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1705: Creative Histories, I: Sensory Approaches to Medieval History

Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:Rachel E. Moss, Université de Paris I
Moderator/Chair:Hetta Howes, School of English & Drama, Queen Mary, University of London
Paper 1705-aMateriality and Making: An Experimental Approach to the Early Medieval Lyre
(Language: English)
Flannery Elisabeth McIntyre, Department of Archaeology Newnham College University of Cambridge
Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Music, Performance Arts - General
Paper 1705-bHearing History: Soundscape Design for Pedagogical Use
(Language: English)
Ariana Ellis, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Downtown
Index terms: Music, Performance Arts - General, Teaching the Middle Ages
Abstract

These two linked sessions explore creative, imaginative, unusual methods of producing history. That could mean new methodologies in writing history such as auto-ethnography and fictive histories, but it could also mean using different writing techniques or fundamentally different kinds of sources for writing history. It might also mean not writing at all - are your methods better served through the media of film, spoken word, painting, knitting, baking? In this session we consider how we can access history through the five senses.