IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1026: The Twilight Zone: Negotiating the Liminal in the Early Medieval Imagination
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Stephen Joyce, Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roderick McDonald, Independent Scholar, Sheffield |
| Paper 1026-a | The Liminal Music Space of Chant: Augustine and the Loss of Boundaries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Music |
| Paper 1026-b | Neither Beast nor Man: Byzantine Adversaries as Sub-Humans in 6th- and 7th-Century Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1026-c | None Shall Pass: Women at the Heavenly Toll-Gates (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1026-d | Excommunicate!: Negotiating Exclusion in the Early Medieval Church (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Abstract | The boundaries between law and crime, between virtue and sin, between civilised and barbarian, between the rational and the irrational created a liminal space - a no man's land - between the included and the excluded, the saved and the damned, the cultured and the uneducated, the sane and the mad, where elements of society existed. This session examines aspects of these ephemeral and shifting liminal spaces and how early medieval cultures connected to the rejected, the strange or the 'beyond the pale', and the impact of these peripheral spaces on core developments within these societies. |