Monsters I: Material Monsters
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA); Societas Daemonetica
Organizer Name
Melissa Ridley Elmes, Ana Grinberg, Asa Simon Mittman
Organizer Affiliation
Lindenwood Univ., East Tennessee State Univ., California State Univ.-Chico
Presider Name
Ana Grinberg
Paper Title 1
Saint Margaret and the Dragon: Representation and Ritual at Chartres Cathedral
Presenter 1 Name
Ashley Laverock
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Savannah College of Art and Design
Paper Title 2
Framing an English King: The Function of Ambiguity and Monstrosity in the Treatise of Walter de Milemete (Christ Church MS 92)
Presenter 2 Name
Caitlin DiMartino
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Austin
Paper Title 3
Material Monsters: Hides, Li Hisdeus, and Humans in Guillaume de Palerne
Presenter 3 Name
Cassidy Thompson
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Start Date
13-5-2017 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1045
Description
The recent scholarly turn towards greater consideration of the material culture of the premodern world demands an equivalent attention to the place of the monstrous within that scholarship. This session invites twenty-minute papers from any discipline that locate, interpret, and analyze the materiality of monsters and monstrosity in medieval and early modern cultures. We invite consideration of the materiality of monsters, as well as of the media used to create representations thereof. Papers might examine monstrous figures represented on or shown wearing textiles, as made of or wielding wood or metal, or as fundamentally tied to their manuscript or architectural contexts. Medieval authors and modern scholars often see an essential connection between monsters and their physical embodiment. Most discussions have centered, following Augustine and Isidore, on vision. We invite consideration all material properties of monsters, and of all the senses in our reception of the monstrous.
Asa S. Mittman
Monsters I: Material Monsters
Fetzer 1045
The recent scholarly turn towards greater consideration of the material culture of the premodern world demands an equivalent attention to the place of the monstrous within that scholarship. This session invites twenty-minute papers from any discipline that locate, interpret, and analyze the materiality of monsters and monstrosity in medieval and early modern cultures. We invite consideration of the materiality of monsters, as well as of the media used to create representations thereof. Papers might examine monstrous figures represented on or shown wearing textiles, as made of or wielding wood or metal, or as fundamentally tied to their manuscript or architectural contexts. Medieval authors and modern scholars often see an essential connection between monsters and their physical embodiment. Most discussions have centered, following Augustine and Isidore, on vision. We invite consideration all material properties of monsters, and of all the senses in our reception of the monstrous.
Asa S. Mittman