IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 720: Medieval Studies and the Crises of the Present, II: Food, Time, and Care
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Organisers: | Bee Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Amanda Power, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Amanda Power, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 720-a | Mete(les) Mythologies: Vegan Prehistories in the Middle English Gawain Romances (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 720-b | Periodising from the Anthropocene: Reapproaching the Age of the Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography and Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | This session continues to explore ways of enriching scholarship by connecting medieval and modern crises, using an awareness of contemporary crises to inform analysis of the medieval past. Caitlin Kelly uses vegan theory on carnism to inform a reading of Gawain as a site to dislocate carnivorous cosmologies by exhibiting a lost heritage of attentive eating. Gwenffrewi Morgan considers what the recognition that we are in the ‘Anthropocene’, a geological periodisation characterised by human geological agency, does to how medievalists periodise and look for medieval periodising thought. What does it do to think about agencies of different actors within ecological systems in developing periodising frameworks? Finally, Charlie Rhodes proposes a care-centred reading of medieval texts to reveal how the past is used to mask violence, inequity, and systemic failures of care in modernity. |