IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 224: Affect, Action, Effect, Reaction: Gender and Emotions in the Cultural Climates of the Medieval World

Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Organiser:	Melissa Ridley Elmes, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Moderator/Chair:	Dana Oswald, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Paper 224-a	Kings and Scholars: The Emotional Politics of Ideal Masculinity in Giles of Rome (Language: English) Susie Heywood, Department of History King's College London Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric
Paper 224-b	Keeping Up With the ibn Tibbons: Masculinity and Homosociality in Medieval Provincia (Language: English) R. Mattea Chadwick, Independent Scholar Brussels Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic
Paper 224-c	Boys Don't Cry?: Emotion and the Performance of Chivalric Masculinity in Partonope of Blois (Language: English) Jane Bonsall, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures - English Literature, University of Edinburgh Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Other
Paper 224-d	Emotional Eating?: Expressive Consumption and Masculinity in Late Medieval England, 1250-1500 (Language: English) Fiona Lillian Knight, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	This session explores the intersection of emotion and gender in medieval literature and culture, topics including emotion and affect in Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum, Judah Ibn Tibbon's Musar Av (Father's Admonition), the Middle English Partonope of Blois, and consumption and lay and clerical masculinity in Late Medieval England.