IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1641: Mourning and Remembrance, II: The Living and the Dead
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Steer, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 1641-a | 'Virtutum vitis Philippi vera propago / pontificum gemma cunctae probitatis imago': The Minutulus Epigraphs in the Maior Neapolitana Ecclesia - Rhetorical Paths of Remembrance between Lineage, Virtues, and Civic Identity, 1301-1407 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Epigraphy, Religious Life |
| Paper 1641-b | Presentation and Physical Treatment of the Bodies of the Dead in the Íslendingasögur and Konungasögur (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The living and the dead often have a complex relationship. This session considers the relationship between the long dead and the living, through two papers exploring, respectively, attempts to connect a Neapolitan family of the High Middle Ages to Antiquity, and medieval Icelanders contemplating the death of their pre-Christian kings. |