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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1601: The Afterlives of Anglo-Saxon in Early Modern Literature

Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Department of English, King's College London
Organiser:Hannah Crawforth, Department of English, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:Hannah Crawforth, Department of English, King's College London
Paper 1601-a'Nemp your sexes!': Old English on the Early Modern Stage
(Language: English)
Lucy Munro, School of Humanities, Keele University
Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama
Paper 1601-bSelden, Saxonism, and Writing the Past in Early Modern England
(Language: English)
Angus Edmund Vine, Department of English, University of Sussex
Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 1601-cBen Jonson and Old English
(Language: English)
Hannah Crawforth, Department of English, King's College London
Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract

There has recently been much exciting work done to recover the beginnings of the discipline of linguistics in Early Modern England, but the literary impact of this important intellectual development has been little studied. This panel will work across the increasingly porous disciplinary divide between medieval and Renaissance studies, considering the impact of Early Modern studies of the history of English upon literary texts. Embracing topics ranging from archaism to etymology, and attending closely to individual words, our speakers will trace the afterlives of medieval and Anglo-Saxon English in Renaissance texts.