IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1531: Inheritance, Intercession, and Imagination: Crossing the Border between Life and Death, I - Inheritance

Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:	Embla Aae, Institutt for arkeologi historie kultur- og religionsvitenskap Universitetet i Bergen
Moderator/Chair:	Scott Harrower, Department of History, Ethics & Theology, Ridley College, Victoria
Paper 1531-a	Illegal or Irrevocable Donation?: The Case of a 14th-Century Testamentary Dispute (Language: English) Tonje H. Waldersnes, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life
Paper 1531-b	The Crossing of the Red Sea Sarcophagi: Moses, Death, and Intercession (Language: English) Alexis Gorby, School of Archaeology / St John's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Liturgy, Religious Life
Paper 1531-c	The Materiality of Charity and Salvation in Late Medieval Douai (Language: English) Mary Anne Gonzales, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	This session forms a coherent whole together with Session II: Intercession and Session III: Imagination. All three sessions focus on how the living sought to negotiate the intersection between life and death throughout the Middle Ages. Through these sessions, we aim to further a comparative understanding of conceptions of the afterlife within the coherence and diversity of the medieval Church. The theme of Session I is inheritance. It contains papers that consider inheritance and donations made in preparation for death, both through examinations of wills and documents and through consideration of material sources.