IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2116: (Un)Bound Bodies, II
Friday 9 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London |
| Paper 2116-a | 'Know Thyself': Self-Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Human in Cistercian Texts on the Soul (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 2116-b | Sleight of Hand and Dangerous Stunts: Approaches to the History of Illusionist Magic (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - General, Science, Technology |
| Paper 2116-c | Supernatural and Natural Bodily Impressions: St Francis's Stigmatisation and Franciscan Optics (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Science, Theology |
| Abstract | The senses were a key, porous boundary of medieval bodies. What did it to mean to sense and to be sensed, to affect and to be affected? Papers here analyse the mutability of these experiential categories from the perspective of epistemology and spiritual psychology, magic and illusions, and medieval optics and hagiography. Across a diverse source base - Cistercian De anima texts; unedited recipe collections; the Franciscan Legenda Minor and Roger Bacon's Perspectiva - the specific definition of the body's boundaries and limits is shown to have played a distinctive role in the shaping of individual and communal physical, and metaphysical, identities. |