Materiality and Emotion I: Skin and Threads

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Organizer Name

Stephanie Downes

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Melbourne

Presider Name

Denis Renevey

Presider Affiliation

Univ. de Lausanne

Paper Title 1

Vines, Petals, Nerves: Feeling Floral Skins

Presenter 1 Name

Lara Farina

Presenter 1 Affiliation

West Virginia Univ.

Paper Title 2

Feeling Fabric: Margery Kempe, Mysticism, and a Love of Clothes

Presenter 2 Name

Gabrielle Parkin

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Mount St. Mary's Univ.

Paper Title 3

Was Gawain's Girdle a Relic?

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Randles

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Melbourne

Paper Title 4

Plastic and Prosthetic Skin

Presenter 4 Name

Katie L. Walter

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Sussex

Start Date

8-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

Critical and theoretical investigations of materiality are increasingly prevalent in historical inquiry, spurred by recent interest in the relationships between contemporary objects and emotions in the twenty-first century. The historical intersections between material culture and emotions in medieval contexts, however, remain under explored. This panel will address the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the study of materiality and emotion in the Middle Ages. The papers in “Materiality and Emotion I: Skin and Threads” treat the emotions in the context of textiles, relics, clothing and manuscript studies.

Stephanie Downes