IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 501: Reflecting on Early English in Honour of Don Scragg, I: The Heroic

Sponsor:	Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester
Organiser:	Elaine Treharne, Department of English, University of Leicester
Moderator/Chair:	Robert E. Bjork, Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
Paper 501-a	Beowulf and the Queen's Cup (Language: English) Stephen O. Glosecki, Department of English, University of Alabama, Birmingham Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 501-b	Versions of the Heroic in Later Old English Literature (Language: English) Hugh Magennis, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 501-c	Verbal Valour: The Discourse of Saintly Heroines in Old English Literature (Language: English) Jill A. Frederick, Department of English, Minnesota State University, Moorhead Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	This session, the first of three submitted, will focus on explicating Old English heroic poetry, a major interest of the honorand, Professor Donald Scragg, a senior Anglo-Saxonist, Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. All three sessions involve established scholars, who will present new research on aspects of Early English texts and their cultural contexts.