IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1116: Staying Put and Stasis in Medieval England

Organiser:	Jennifer Brown, Department of English, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
Moderator/Chair:	Sylvia Tomasch, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York
Paper 1116-a	Pilgrimages Promised but Not Taken in the vitae of Edward the Confessor (Language: English) Jennifer Brown, Department of English, Marymount Manhattan College, New York Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Comparative, Religious Life
Paper 1116-b	Stasis and Mobility in the Early English Reclusive Tradition (Language: English) Michelle M. Sauer, Department of English, University of North Dakota Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1116-c	Re/Defining Ecclesiastical Authority in Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Jennifer Smith, California State University, Long Beach / Department of English, Claremont Graduate University, California Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies
Abstract	This panel looks at proscriptions against travel, at people who travelled 'in their minds', and at pilgrimages not taken in medieval English literature. Playing with the conference topic of travel and exploration, this panel seeks to examine how travel shaped people who stayed at home.