IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 320: Religious Travellers in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Shannon Godlove, Division of Human Studies, Alfred University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Mary Garrison, Department of History, University of York |
Paper 320-a | Living the Dream: Exile and Suffering in the Letters of Anglo-Saxon Missionaries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
Paper 320-b | Travellers across Space and Time: Apostles and Anglo-Saxons in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles and the Anonymous Metrical Calendar (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | The Anglo-Saxons were famously mobile - as exiles, pilgrims, missionaries, and emissaries they criss-crossed Europe. This session explores the representations, implications, and outcomes of Anglo-Saxon religious travel from literary, historical, and art-historical perspectives. Luisa Izzi investigates the architectural influences carried to England by religious travellers to Rome such as Wilfrid. John Clay treats the theme of peregrinatio, focusing on how the literary persona of the suffering exile was employed in the correspondence of Anglo-Saxon missionaries. Shannon Godlove discusses the travels of the apostles as a meaningful subject of veneration for Christian Anglo-Saxons in two Old English poems. |