IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1625: Medieval Roads: Streets, Paths, Routes, Networks
Thursday 12 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Valerie Allen, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michelle M. Sauer, Department of English, Minot State University, North Dakota |
| Paper 1625-a | Vagrant Acts: York's Entry into Jerusalem and the Constitution of Community (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Social History |
| Paper 1625-b | Travellers and Potholes: Rules of the Road in Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1625-c | Crossing the Road with Margery Kempe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Women’s Studies |
| Abstract | In this session, 'Medieval Roads: Streets, Paths, Routes, Networks,' we understand the road at all levels of interpretation: as cultural route, for pilgrimage and mystery drama cycles; in its physical construction, customs and tolls, maintenance, and safety; and as a network of connections between bodies of knowledge and disciplines. The first paper addresses the construction of civic cultural identity in the context of the York mystery plays; the second, the construction of subjects as they are shaped by law and custom of the road; and the third, the construction of social space within medieval culture itself and with reference to how medieval studies inhabits disciplinary space within the academy. |