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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London |
Paper 2016-a | Castrating Ovid: Christine de Pisan and the Medieval Ovidian Body (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Women's Studies |
Paper 2016-b | Beyond Anatomy: Guido da Vigevano's Corporeal Work (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Sexuality |
Paper 2016-c | Flesh Side: Sharing Bodies with New Haven, Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, MS 84 (Language: English) 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. |