IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1528: Sights and Sounds: Medieval Pastimes
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Meghan Cai, Department of Modern Languages & Literature, Grand Valley State University, Michigan Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg, Department of History, Kean University, New Jersey |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Meghan Cai, Department of Modern Languages & Literature, Grand Valley State University, Michigan |
| Paper 1528-a | How Magical Amulets Function: Images and Texts on Byzantine Amulets (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 1528-b | Rhapsodising Foreign Musical Instruments (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Music, Social History |
| Paper 1528-c | Wine for Books: Book Borrowing Practices among 11th- and 12th-Century Chinese Literati (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Other, Social History |
| Abstract | People always find ways to indulge themselves. This panel highlights four distinct examples of how medieval elites entertained themselves and others, and exemplifies how material objects embody and transcend boundaries of place, community, and power. Late antique Byzantians found amusement, security, and hope through creating magic objects; early medieval central Asians brought their hybrid musical practices to China and the latter slowly converted them into their own styles; medieval Chinese delighted in music and nature; and finally 11th and 12th century Chinese men borrowed, copied, and commented on books as a means to strengthen their elite identities. |