IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 336: Medievalism in the Modern World, II: Public Engagement and Networking

Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:	Eleanor Cox, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chairs:	Eleanor Cox, Department of History, University of Nottingham Edmund van der Molen, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 336-a	Mario Monicelli between the Middle Ages and Medievalism: The Case of Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (Language: English) Andrea Feliziani, Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e orientalistiche, Università di Bologna Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History
Paper 336-b	Shifting Characterisations of Witchcraft in Western Pop Culture (Language: English) Ruthann Miller, Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History
Paper 336-c	Daring to Look at the Other through History: The Impact of Dwarves' Depiction in Medieval French Manuscripts on our Society (Language: English) Florent Réthoré, Department of French & Italian, University of Colorado, Boulder Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities, Social History
Abstract	This panel examines the intersection between medieval history and its impact on the contemporary world. Andrea Feliziani's paper analyses the medieval imagery of the film 'Bertoldo Bertoldino and Cacasenno' (1984), set in an imaginary 10th century, to explore how medievalism was understood by its creators and audience. Ruthann Mowry's paper analyses how witchcraft has been used and appropriated into popular culture as well as the impact this absorption has on the historical record.