IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1621: 'On the edge of a Grimpen': Arthurian Narrative and the Perilous Forest of Heterodoxy
Thursday 16 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester |
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| Organiser: | Anne Marie D'Arcy, School of English, University of Leicester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alan J. Fletcher, Department of English, University College Dublin |
| Paper 1621-a | Visionary Violence: Authorising and Imitating the Ascetic Body (Language: English) |
| Paper 1621-b | 'I was shapen by nigramancie': The Enchanted Body in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Science, Theology |
| Paper 1621-c | 'For ever she boyleth in scaldynge water': Morgan le Fay, Female Self-Authorization, and Malory (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Middle English, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Since Chrétien de Troyes, the encroaching silva, the primordial chaos of the dark wood, is a space where the absolute values of church, state, and society are tested in the romance tradition. In the chronicle tradition, as early as the Annales Cambriae, the battlefield is a space where similar challenges to religious, political, and societal orthodoxy are confronted, albeit in a radically altered mapping of the landscape. This session explores the treatment of heresy on the margins of the Arthurian topothesia in Middle English, focusing on the roles of prophesy, science, and gender in relation to this theme. |