“Can These Bones Come To Life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Higgins Armory Museum
Organizer Name
Kenneth Mondschein
Organizer Affiliation
Higgins Armory Museum
Presider Name
Kenneth Mondschein
Paper Title 1
Manuscript Studies across the Disciplines
Presenter 1 Name
Michael Chidester
Presenter 1 Affiliation
HEMAA Wiktenauer Project
Paper Title 2
Building upon Nothing: A Lack of Evidence
Presenter 2 Name
Michael A. Cramer
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Paper Title 3
The Birth of the Duel of Honor in Late Medieval Italy
Presenter 3 Name
Tom Leoni
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Catholic Univ. of America
Paper Title 4
A Reconstruction of a Medieval Hoop-Spread Pavilion
Presenter 4 Name
Will McLean
Presenter 4 Affiliation
La Belle Compagnie
Start Date
11-5-2014 8:30 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 210
Description
Continuing our wildly popular and well-attended series of sessions, we invite archaeologists, dancers, musicians and musicologists, historical fencers, armorers, brewers, theater historians and performers, textile researchers, and scholars in other fields to submit papers for a unique interdisciplinary session on the insights into history that can be gained from attempts to reconstruct medieval arts, as well as the historiographical issues involved in such work. In keeping with our traditional theme of "Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation," proposals for papers should discuss either the interpretation of medieval material evidence or practical insights gained from reconstructing such artifacts, as well as how these insights modify existing scholarship or solve a research question and the historiographical issues involved therein—i.e., to what extent we can hope to play music, perform passion plays, weave cloth, brew mead, make armor, or wield swords as medieval people did, and why. We already have two papers submitted for this session.
Kenneth C. Mondschein
“Can These Bones Come To Life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation
Bernhard 210
Continuing our wildly popular and well-attended series of sessions, we invite archaeologists, dancers, musicians and musicologists, historical fencers, armorers, brewers, theater historians and performers, textile researchers, and scholars in other fields to submit papers for a unique interdisciplinary session on the insights into history that can be gained from attempts to reconstruct medieval arts, as well as the historiographical issues involved in such work. In keeping with our traditional theme of "Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation," proposals for papers should discuss either the interpretation of medieval material evidence or practical insights gained from reconstructing such artifacts, as well as how these insights modify existing scholarship or solve a research question and the historiographical issues involved therein—i.e., to what extent we can hope to play music, perform passion plays, weave cloth, brew mead, make armor, or wield swords as medieval people did, and why. We already have two papers submitted for this session.
Kenneth C. Mondschein