"Can These Bones Come to Life?": Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Societas Johannis Higginsis
Organizer Name
Kenneth Mondschein
Organizer Affiliation
Societas Johannis Higgensis
Presider Name
Kenneth Mondschein
Paper Title 1
Part of the Whole: Deciphering Medieval Stage Techniques through Performance
Presenter 1 Name
Lydia Craig, Richard Gilbert
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Loyola Univ. Chicago, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Paper Title 2
Extant Damage On Late Medieval Edged Weapons and Armours: Initial Findings and Interpretations
Presenter 2 Name
James Hester
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Southampton
Paper Title 3
The Battle of Nations: Prowess, Politics, and Parallels in a Re-created Deed of Arms
Presenter 3 Name
Michael A. Cramer
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Start Date
13-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 106
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. This year's paper include papers on modern politics in a recreated medieval deed of arms, reconstructions of how weapons were used from battlefield forensics, and reconstructing medieval stage techniques.
"Can These Bones Come to Life?": Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation
Bernhard 106
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. This year's paper include papers on modern politics in a recreated medieval deed of arms, reconstructions of how weapons were used from battlefield forensics, and reconstructing medieval stage techniques.