IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 134: Out of Sync: Intersectional Approaches, I - Producing and Contesting Knowledge
Monday 6 July 2026, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | Collaborative for Intersectional Medieval Studies (CIMS) |
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| Organisers: | Anja S. Rathmann-Lutz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Erfurt Rike Szill, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 134-a | Inbetweeners: Some Thoughts on the Temporal Dimensions of Early Medieval Child Enslavement (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Paper 134-b | Back to the Futures Past: The Intersection of Temporal and Human Differentiation in Medieval Miracle Collections (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities |
| Paper 134-c | (De)Synched Knowledge: Innovation and Language in 12th-Century Scientific Discourse (Language: English) Index terms: Social History, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 134-d | News Flash: Instant Miraculous Knowledge in Late Medieval Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities |
| Abstract | What happens when lives, experiences, or histories do not align with dominant timelines—when they appear too early, too late, or entirely out of time? And how do categories of difference such as gender, race, social status, religion, dis/ability, or age shape how time is experienced, structured, remembered, or erased? This first of three sessions invites us to think about time not only as measurable, but as a socio-political experience shaped by perception, practice, and power. These sessions ask how people in the Middle Ages structured their realities through belief systems, daily rhythms, and social orders—and how our own scholarship continues to organise “medieval time.” How did time interact with structures of difference, and what new perspectives might an intersectional lens offer? This first of three sessions sharpens this perspective by examining how temporal and social differentiations intersect in the making, authorising, and challenging of knowledge in the medieval world. |