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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1623: Exploring Borders and Liminal Spaces, II

Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University
Organiser:Simon Meecham-Jones, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge / Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research, Swansea University
Moderator/Chair:Thomas Horler-Underwood, Department of History, Swansea University
Paper 1623-a'In one sumere dale': Liminality in the Owl and the Nightingale
(Language: English)
Elizabeth Cox, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1623-bCrossing Boundaries: Travellers and Visitors to St Guthlac's beorg
(Language: English)
Pamela Morgan, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Department of English, Swansea University
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract

An investigation of the depiction of metaphorical, prohibitory, and defining 'borders' in Old English and Early Middle English texts, and the light this sheds on actual or perceived states of liminality.