Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.
Organizer Name
Fiona Griffiths, Kathryn Starkey
Organizer Affiliation
Stanford Univ., Stanford Univ.
Presider Name
Kathryn Starkey
Paper Title 1
Reading Effects: The Sensory Experience of Lectio at Villers
Presenter 1 Name
Sara Ritchey
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette
Paper Title 2
Birds in Hand: Micro-books and the Devotional Experience, 1270-1517
Presenter 2 Name
Alexa K. Sand
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Utah State Univ.
Start Date
15-5-2016 10:30 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 211
Description
The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, amulets, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. This session draws the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts II
Bernhard 211
The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, amulets, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. This session draws the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.