IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1001: Corpus or Corpus?: Exhuming Bodies from Texts and Texts from Exhumed Bodies
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | MRC Project 'The Human Remains: Digital Library of British Mortuary Science & Investigation' |
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Organisers: | Llewelyn Hopwood, Faculty of English / Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Ruth Nugent, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester |
Moderator/Chair: | Kate Giles, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
Paper 1001-a | Excavating Linguistic Patterns from Semantically Tagged Data: A Case Study of the Human Remains Digital Library (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Hagiography, Mentalities |
Paper 1001-b | 'You've gone too far': Crossing Boundaries and Disapproving Witnesses in Medieval English Mortuary Accounts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety |
Paper 1001-c | Navigating the Boundaries of Exhumed Bodies: The Human Remains Project (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1001-d | Seeing the Tangible through the Lens of the Intangible: Medieval Romance Literature, Deathscapes, and the Castle (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative |
Abstract | The boundaries between the body as 'corpus' and the text as 'corpus' is a tantalising yet elusive area of medieval enquiry. Even less understood and yet more intellectually potent is the process of 'exhumation' in both the literal and metaphorical senses of retrieving, resurrecting, and reconstructing dead bodies from texts and also producing texts from the examination of dead bodies in the Middle Ages. By situating their research between the boundaries of archaeology, linguistics, history, literature, and computer science, these papers explore the patterns and nuances of bodily and textual interplay in medieval accounts of exhumation. |