IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 701: Reflecting on Early English in Honour of Don Scragg, III: Transmitters and Receivers of Medieval Texts
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester |
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Organiser: | Elaine Treharne, Department of English, University of Leicester |
Moderator/Chair: | Elaine Treharne, Department of English, University of Leicester |
Paper 701-a | Is it Heretical?: The Politics of Textual Transmission in a Decalogue in Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 472 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 701-b | The Interests of Compounding: How England Takes Place (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 701-c | 'The Good Rule of Masonry': Anglo-Saxon Myths of the Freemasons (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | This session, the third of three submitted, will focus on evaluating the meaning and manipulation of texts through their transmission. These texts extend from lexis concerned with English identity, to the creation of myths and political propaganda in the Anglo-Saxon and later medieval period. |