medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I assume you are in touch with John Harper in Bangor? He is currently running a major AHRC/ESRC funded project on precisely this subject but with a Welsh dimension, using the rebuilt church of St Teilo at the National History Museum in St Fagans.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray
Reader in History
School of Education/Ysgol Addysg
University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion,
Newport/Casnewydd NP18 3QT Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
'A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.' (Gilles Deleuze)
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Subject: [M-R] Session at Kalamazoo 2012
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Please see below a call for papers for a session at Kalamazoo 2012. Please forward to colleagues or students who might be interested. Many thanks.
Beth Williamson
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Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo, International Congress
May 10-13, 2012
The Sight and Sound of the Parish in Medieval England
Organisers: Elizabeth Archibald, James Clark and Beth Williamson
The English medieval parish is a familiar focus for explorations of public and popular religious culture. Recent research has revealed much of the institutional frameworks, social dynamics and the personnel that shaped the practice of religion in this setting. Yet it might be questioned whether this work has brought us any closer to an understanding of what it was to experience worship in, and around the parish church. What of the aesthetic dimension? We have become accustomed to reading the archival, manuscript and material records for their insights into the forms and functions of the parish but they are equally valuable as documents of its aural and visual culture. The purpose of these panels, which have grown out of a new, interdisciplinary project on the Medieval West (of England) hosted by Bristol’s Centre for Medieval Studies, is to re-focus attention on these sensory aspects of popular religion.
Key topics to be addressed might include:
The visual and material culture - surviving, or documented - of the parish, not merely the parish church, but also of the wider parish community; liturgical and extra- or para-liturgical music; procession, and associated sights and sounds; instrumental music, including organs; bells; town criers; the depiction of musical and non-musical sound in visual imagery; and musical allusion in all kinds of texts. Papers that address questions of sight and sound together will be especially welcomed, as will papers that consider visual or material culture that may have a specifically aural dimension, such as screens, pulpits or galleries. The interaction of the visual and aural culture of the parish with that of neighbouring monastic or cathedral communities may be another area of interest.
For proposals to participate in The Sight and Sound of the Parish in Medieval England please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, plus a completed ‘Participant Information Form’ (available online at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper)
to Elizabeth Archibald by 1st September
Elizabeth Archibald ([log in to unmask])
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