IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1501: Crowning Glory: Rulership and Difference in Anglo-Saxon England
Thursday 15 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Stewart J. Brookes, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London Carolin M. Esser, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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Moderator/Chair: | Mary Swan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 1501-a | Handling the Sceptre: Ælfric and the Politics of Kingship (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Theology |
Paper 1501-b | Cyning Middangeardes: On the Axis of a Three-Fold Hierarchy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Social History, Theology |
Paper 1501-c | Belabouring Difference: Work and the Production of Gender in Old English Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | In the spirit of the congress's theme 'Clash of Cultures', the focus of this session is on inner and outer cultural influences, perspectives and representations of Anglo-Saxon rulership. The three papers will variously address issues of Kingship, gender and the relationship of the human to the divine, as found in selected Old English prose and poetic texts. The approach will be literary as well as historical. |