IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1601: Pagans and Sexuality, II: Geographies
Thursday 16 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Salih, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Clare A. Lees, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London |
| Paper 1601-a | Comparative Conversions: The Conversion of Northumbria in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale and Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1601-b | Alexander Penetrated and Undone: Queer Orientations in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Pagan Religions, Sexuality |
| Paper 1601-c | Strange Bodies: Visualising Pagan and Monstrous Sex in Travel Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | The figure of the 'pagan' was a valuable repository for Christian doubts, questions, and anxieties about sexuality. These papers examine narratives which use unsettled geographies to explore the alterity of pagans and their sex. Hurley studies the seduction, taming, and conversion of pagans in locations which are not yet Christian; Joy Alexander's vulnerability to interpenetration by the exotic landscape he aims to possess; Salih the use of pagan and monstrous sexuality to explore the limits of the human in travel texts and their illustrations. |