IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1504: Ambiguity of Hospitality, I: Approaching Intercultural Host-Guest Relations through Discourse and Rituals, 1000-1350
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Ambiguities of Hospitality Project / Centrum för medeltidsstudier, Stockholms universitet |
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| Organiser: | Wojtek Jezierski, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet |
| Paper 1504-a | Ambiguous Semantics?: Changing Notions of Hospitality in Narrative Sources - A Digital Humanities Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
| Paper 1504-b | 'After dinner everyone wants to kill Nur-ad-Din': Faith, Class, and Culture in the Latin East (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1504-c | (S)Platter: What Do Metaphors of Battles as Feasts Tell Us about the Ambiguity of Hospitality in Intercultural Contacts? (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative |
| Abstract | Scholars have traditionally focused on the integrative potential of hospitality in intercultural contacts and in medieval societies in general. Common feasting, conviviality, and host-guest relations have long been interpreted as ways of achieving peace and avoiding conflict also across cultural and religious divides. By analyzing the semantics of hospitalitas in large text corpora, by studying metaphors of feasts and battles, and by exploring concrete rituals of hosting and guesting during the crusades in the Holy Land, the papers in this session demonstrate how intercultural hospitality and feasting were ridden with risks and ambiguities, thus uncovering the limits of functionalistic view of hospitality in the High Middle Ages. |