IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1025: Silence and Silencing, I: Silences in the Archive
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Brittany Orton, Department of History, University of York Basil Price, Department of English, Arizona State University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Basil Price, Department of English, Arizona State University |
| Paper 1025-a | Recovering Hidden Queenly Networks in Early Medieval England: The Silence of Kinship in the Historia ecclesiastica and Vita Wilfridi (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1025-b | 'These tales seme to be infarced': Silencing the Miracle Stories in Ælfric's Sermo de Sacrificio in Die Pascae (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1025-c | Dancing in the Silence: Dance and Parish Religion in Britain and Western Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Performance Arts - Dance, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is the first panel in a series on 'Silence and Silencing', which aim to interrogate absences, silences, and gaps within medieval sources and the discipline of Medieval Studies itself, in order to further our understanding of global networks in the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary panel demonstrates how attending to unrecorded, redacted, or ephemeral evidence within medieval sources may reveal an alternative archive of social, political, and religious expression(s) in the northern medieval world. Drawing upon a range of methodologies, including feminist theory, distance reading, and performance studies, these papers challenge dominant understandings of what constitutes source value. |