Medieval Institute

Medieval Institute
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5432 USA
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Rawlinson Center

The Richard Rawlinson Center.
Richard Rawlinson Center

The Richard Rawlinson Center, directed by Jana Schulman, is a research center under the aegis of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University that fosters teaching and research in the culture and history of early medieval England and in the broader field of manuscript studies.

The Center is sponsoring the Rawlinson Center Speaker and two sessions of papers at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies:

Sponsors: Richard Rawlinson Center   

Organizer: George Beckett (g.w.beckett20@gmail.com) 

Medievalists continue to engage with the materiality of the discipline's sources in a plethora of innovative ways. Attentiveness to the hapticity of the manuscript, for example, has illuminated the embodied lives led by such artifacts beyond their textual content. A fascination with the existence of things likewise grounds studies seeking to understand how medieval peoples made sense of those objects alongside which they lived. This session participates in this speculative, posthuman current through contributions on all kinds of objects – tangible, non-extant, literary, or otherwise – in and around early medieval England. Session (1) addresses legible materials and embodied narratives.

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center 

Organizer: George Beckett (g.w.beckett20@gmail.com) 

Medievalists continue to engage with the materiality of the discipline's sources in a plethora of innovative ways. Attentiveness to the hapticity of the manuscript, for example, has illuminated the embodied lives led by such artifacts beyond their textual content. A fascination with the existence of things likewise grounds studies seeking to understand how medieval peoples made sense of those objects alongside which they lived. This session participates in this speculative, posthuman current through contributions on all kinds of objects – tangible, non-extant, literary, or otherwise – in and around early medieval England. Session (2) addresses intangible and (partially) absent objects.