IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 819: Transforming Cities in Medieval English Texts
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Faculty of English, University of Oxford |
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Organiser: | Catherine A. M. Clarke, University College, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Helen Fulton, Department of English, Swansea University |
Paper 819-a | Changing Images of the Town in Old English Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 819-b | City on the Edge: Lucian's In Praise of Chester (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 819-c | Consecrating the Church, Constructing the City: Sacred London in The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's Church (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Abstract | The papers in this session offer historicised approaches to reading cities in medieval English literature, examining the cultural contexts and politics of city representations in Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Latin texts. |