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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 802: Emotions on the Fringes, IV: Religious Representation and Rites of Passage

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Felix Lummer, School of Social Sciences University of Iceland Reykjavík
Moderator/Chair:Felix Lummer, School of Social Sciences University of Iceland Reykjavík
Paper 802-aFuror and Royal Martyrdom in Early Nordic Historiography
(Language: English)
Elizabeth Hasseler, Department of Communications, History & Philosophy, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social History
Paper 802-bThe Ambivalent Judas in Medieval Christian Writing
(Language: English)
Hope Doherty, Department of English Studies Durham University
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social History
Paper 802-cBritons, Picts, and Scots: Tattooing and Rites of Passage in the First Millennium CE
(Language: English)
Erica Steiner, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (Celtic Studies), University of Sydney
Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Social History
Abstract

Emotions can be revealed in various religious and social contexts, ranging from historiographic 'sense-making' caused by the arrival of a new religion to the emotive depiction of religious figures, and even reaching so far as body art as a form of rite of passage. Hasseler's paper examines the lexis and imagery of emotive script of furor and how its narrative mechanism helped Nordic writers to conceptualise the entry into a new salvational community. Doherty's paper investigates medieval Christian understandings of emotions imagined being experienced by Judas in the context of European anti-Judaic anxieties, and Steiner's paper debates body decorations in the Northern British Isles as rites of passage.