IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1320: Representations of the Natural World: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Text and Image
Wednesday 9 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Hilton Shepherd Postgraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Birmingham |
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| Organiser: | Philippa J. Semper, Department of English, University of Birmingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter Darby, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1320-a | Representing Creation: Text and Image in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1320-b | 'For everything there is a season': Images of the Natural World in Anglo-Saxon Calendars (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1320-c | Concealed by the Wood: Tree Imagery in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Old English, Pagan Religions |
| Abstract | This session will examine a range of texts, images, and imagery in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, moving from creation through the seasons to a close look at a single aspect of the natural world. We will apply a variety of critical approaches - literary, historical, art historical - to trace the ways in which these manuscripts present specific aspects of relationships with and attitudes to nature in the Anglo-Saxon period. Our analyses will reveal interactions between artistic, scientific and religious ideas and representations, reshaping everyday experience of the world into a complex model which both contributes to and conforms to cultural expectation. |