IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1001: What Anglo-Saxon Poets Did with Material Culture

Sponsor:	Leeds Studies in English
Organiser:	Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:	Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Paper 1001-a	The Context(s) of Anglo-Saxon Charms (Language: English) Rebecca Fisher, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Sheffield Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine
Paper 1001-b	Anglo-Saxon Talking Objects: A Literary/Artefactual Dialogue (Language: English) Helen Price, School of English, University of Leeds Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1001-c	A Horse-Shoeing Smith?: The Historical, Archaeological, and Literary Evidence for the Existence of the Berkshire Wayland Myth in Anglo-Saxon England, and Its Implications (Language: English) Diane Alff, St John's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract	Medievalists always struggle to get material culture and literary texts to talk to each other, but we're fighting the good fight, in the context of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Likely themes include ecocriticism as a means to understand Anglo-Saxons' constructions of their environments; archaeological evidence for craftsmen and their craft as a way to illuminate Old English texts; and the interplay between material and verbal worlds in Anglo-Saxon healing.