IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 611: Rethinking the South English Legendary
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York / Hagiography Society |
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| Organiser: | Heather Blurton, Department of English UC Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA CA 93106-3170 |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 611-a | The Repressive South English Legendary (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 611-b | Black Humour in the South English Legendary (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 611-c | 'Lite Bokes' and 'Grete Relikes': Texts and their Transmission in the South English Legendary (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The South English Legendary is the major vernacular hagiographic collection of the English Middle Ages, with 50 or so manuscript and manuscript fragments and 296 separate items in circulation in various combinations from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Recently, the SEL has become increasingly well known as modern editions of individual texts and manuscripts are produced. Meanwhile, the hugely increased interest in hagiography and the 'linguistic turn' in literary studies provides a wealth of new approaches through which to view the SEL. We would like to create a fresh new platform for thinking about the SEL, sweeping away the view of the SEL as a rustic work of low-level vernacular achievement, which has hindered perceptions of the SEL as a cultural, social, and political phenomenon. |