Saintly Bodies: Materiality, Manuscripts, Movement (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jenny C. Bledsoe, Lynneth J. Miller
Organizer Affiliation
Emory Univ., Baylor Univ.
Presider Name
Jenny C. Bledsoe
Paper Title 1
Translated Bodies and Traveling Souls: Movement in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography
Presenter 1 Name
Rebecca E. Straple
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Western Michigan Univ.
Paper Title 2
Sacrilegious "Relics": Female Bodies in the Tale of the Cursed Dancing Carolers
Presenter 2 Name
Lynneth J. Miller
Paper Title 3
Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame: Delightful Play, Engaged Bodily Performance
Presenter 3 Name
Rachel Watson
Presenter 3 Affiliation
New York Univ.
Paper Title 4
Reworking Relics: Painting the Teodolinda Chapel in Monza
Presenter 4 Name
Laura Maria Somenzi
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Emory Univ.
Paper Title 5
The Reliquary Codex: Saints' Lives, Books, and Bones in Thirteenth-Century Liège
Presenter 5 Name
Sara Ritchey
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette
Paper Title 6
Finding Women Saints in the Body of the Text
Presenter 6 Name
Courtney E. Rydel
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Washington College
Paper Title 7
The Lives and Afterlives of Holy Women: Medieval Spirituality and Seventeenth-Century Printing in the Low Countries
Presenter 7 Name
Barbara Zimbalist
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-El Paso
Start Date
11-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1360
Description
This panel seeks to explore the relationship between bodies, material objects, and spiritual discourse and practice. How does gender affect the relationship between material objects such as bodies, manuscripts, and relics and the spiritual ideas tied to or communicated through these objects? What can a gendered approach to studies of materiality reveal about medieval literature, history, and religion? This panel will take a multidisciplinary approach to these questions, drawing on manifold methodologies in order to address these questions as fully as possible.
Jenny C. Bledsoe
Saintly Bodies: Materiality, Manuscripts, Movement (A Roundtable)
Schneider 1360
This panel seeks to explore the relationship between bodies, material objects, and spiritual discourse and practice. How does gender affect the relationship between material objects such as bodies, manuscripts, and relics and the spiritual ideas tied to or communicated through these objects? What can a gendered approach to studies of materiality reveal about medieval literature, history, and religion? This panel will take a multidisciplinary approach to these questions, drawing on manifold methodologies in order to address these questions as fully as possible.
Jenny C. Bledsoe