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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2016: (Un)Bound Bodies, I

Friday 9 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London
Moderator/Chair:Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London
Paper 2016-aCastrating Ovid: Christine de Pisan and the Medieval Ovidian Body
(Language: English)
Rebecca Menmuir, Faculty of English University of Oxford
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Women's Studies
Paper 2016-bBeyond Anatomy: Guido da Vigevano's Corporeal Work
(Language: English)
Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London
Index terms: Art History - General, Sexuality
Paper 2016-cFlesh Side: Sharing Bodies with New Haven, Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, MS 84
(Language: English)
Kayla Lunt, Department of Art History Indiana University Bloomington
Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

How could the human body be unbound? What constitutes medieval bodily identities, and how could signifiers of the self be diminished or destroyed entirely? Papers in this strand examine these themes through the case studies of Ovid's visceral castration as recalled by Christine de Pisan, the affective power of the girdle book of Beinecke MS84 containing Boethius' Consolatio philosophiae, and the anatomical works of the 14th-century physician Guido da Vigevano. Prepare to travel through the different categories of medieval embodiment as this session asks new questions of enduring, yet permeable, categories of experience.