Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	802
Title	Emotions on the Fringes, IV: Religious Representation and Rites of Passage
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Organiser	Felix Lummer, Independent Scholar, Reykjavík
Moderator/Chair	Felix Lummer, Independent Scholar, Reykjavík
Paper 802-a	Furor and Royal Martyrdom in Early Nordic Historiography (Language: English) Elizabeth Hasseler, Department of Communication, History & Philosophy, Texas A&M University, San Antonio Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Social History
Paper 802-b	The Ambivalent Judas in Medieval Christian Writing (Language: English) Hope Doherty, Department of English Studies / Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Social History
Paper 802-c	Britons, Picts, and Scots: Tattooing and Rites of Passage in the First Millennium CE (Language: English) Erica Steiner, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (Celtic Studies), University of Sydney Index Terms: Art History - General; Historiography - Medieval; Social History
Abstract	Emotions can be revealed in various religious and social contexts, ranging from historiographic 'sense-making' caused by the arrival of a new religion to the emotive depiction of religious figures, and even reaching so far as body art as a form of rite of passage. Hasseler's paper examines the lexis and imagery of emotive script of furor and how its narrative mechanism helped Nordic writers to conceptualise the entry into a new salvational community. Doherty's paper investigates medieval Christian understandings of emotions imagined being experienced by Judas in the context of European anti-Judaic anxieties, and Steiner's paper debates body decorations in the Northern British Isles as rites of passage.