IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2305: The Use of Language: Navigating Religious, Gender, and Social Identities
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | National Science Centre, Poland, Warszawa / Uniwersytet Warszawski / Jacksonville State University, Florida / Oxford Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Mirela Ivanova, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Yuliya Minets, National University, Kyiv / Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kyiv |
| Moderator/Chair: | Marijana Vukovic, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Paper 2305-a | Understanding Early 'Arianism': Arius's Registers of Language (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Greek, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 2305-b | Penetrating, Piercing, and Androgenising: The Linguistic Defining, Redefining, and Blurring of Gender in the Beowulf Manuscript and the Madrid Skylitzes (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Women's Studies |
| Paper 2305-c | Linguistic Dynamics in Ilkhanid Historiography: The Input of Textual Statistics (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Other, Social History |
| Abstract | The session explores the dynamics of language use in situations in which a variety of other factors were involved, such as religious or confessional affiliation, gender, social status, education, regional, ethnic, and institutional loyalties. Participants will discuss different aspects of resistance, adaptation, and the formation of hybrid types of identity in late antique and medieval societies. This includes the social aspects of the language use in the context of the major religious controversy in the fourth-century Mediterranean, namely 'Arianism'; the use of gendered language to androgenize female bodies in medieval art and literary narratives; linguistic dynamics in Ilkhanid historiography. |