IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1026: Entangled Environments, I: Environmental Assemblage and Networks in Medieval Britain
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Susannah Bain, Faculty of History University of Oxford Geraint Morgan, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Huw Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1026-a | Assemblages of Movement in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1026-b | The Agency of Nature in Materials: Scottish Medieval Devotional Objects and Spaces, from an Actor Network Theory Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Architecture - Religious, Folk Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 1026-c | 'An excellent mill belonging to the blessed maiden': Milling and Human Agency in the Latin Hagiography of Gwenffrewi (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography, Technology |
| Abstract | This session will offer perspectives on networked environmental agencies, focused on medieval British examples. Celeste van Gent's paper will focus on the assemblage of agencies in the 15th-century itineraries of William Worcester, integrating material, human and animal agencies. Abigail Ford's paper will explore the ways in which nature held influence in the construction of devotional objects and spaces, through ANT and post-ANT developments in archaeology and the study of material culture in late medieval Scotland. Geraint Morgan's paper will use ANT and Gaian-Terrestrial thinking to conceptualise the networks of human and non-human agency in the 12th-century Latin hagiographies of Gwenffrewi. |