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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Felix Lummer, School of Social Sciences University of Iceland Reykjavík |
Paper 802-a | Furor and Royal Martyrdom in Early Nordic Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 802-b | The Ambivalent Judas in Medieval Christian Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 802-c | Britons, Picts, and Scots: Tattooing and Rites of Passage in the First Millennium CE (Language: English) 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. |