"Can These Bones Come to Life?": Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-Creation
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Societas Johannis Higginsis
Organizer Name
Kenneth Mondschein
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst-Mt. Ida
Presider Name
Michael A. Cramer
Presider Affiliation
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Paper Title 1
"What's in a name?": Experimental Archaeologist or Re-Enactor: Who are We?
Presenter 1 Name
Neil Peterson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
EXARC
Paper Title 2
Fifteen Shades of Brown: Making Saltpetre, Experimental Archaeology, and Being Historically Authentic
Presenter 2 Name
Axel E. W. Müller
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Paper Title 3
Not Only VLFBERHT: Viking Period Swords
Presenter 3 Name
Steven Blowney
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
11-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 209
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. We are also especially interested in papers that explore modern medievalism in these contexts.
Ken Mondschein
"Can These Bones Come to Life?": Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-Creation
Bernhard 209
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. We are also especially interested in papers that explore modern medievalism in these contexts.
Ken Mondschein