CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)
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Medieval literature and art abound with representations of people and things that are not materially present but nevertheless have real effects, from visions of transcendent religious ecstasy to the inventions of rhetoric. Scholars such as Martin K. Foys, Elizabeth Fowler, Martha Dana Rust, and Seeta Chaganti have recently invoked new media, virtual subjects, manuscript matrices, and danced virtuality in relation to the Middle Ages. This roundtable seeks an interdisciplinary conversation on virtuality in the medieval period: its suitability as a term; its role in medieval philosophy; its connotations in critical theory; and its connections to modern understandings of representation and reality. Danielle Allor
CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)
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Medieval literature and art abound with representations of people and things that are not materially present but nevertheless have real effects, from visions of transcendent religious ecstasy to the inventions of rhetoric. Scholars such as Martin K. Foys, Elizabeth Fowler, Martha Dana Rust, and Seeta Chaganti have recently invoked new media, virtual subjects, manuscript matrices, and danced virtuality in relation to the Middle Ages. This roundtable seeks an interdisciplinary conversation on virtuality in the medieval period: its suitability as a term; its role in medieval philosophy; its connotations in critical theory; and its connections to modern understandings of representation and reality. Danielle Allor