IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1307: Text and Place
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Liverpool |
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| Organiser: | Alexandrina Buchanan, School of History, University of Liverpool |
| Moderator/Chair: | Carol Davidson Cragoe, Independent Scholar, Enfield |
| Paper 1307-a | 'The Wilderness of Wirral' in Gawain and the Green Knight (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality, Local History |
| Paper 1307-b | Monuments and Documents in Architectural Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Archives and Sources, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1307-c | The Castle of Perseverance and the Creation of Place (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Abstract | The power of text is that it can reliably deliver ideas across space. Texts such as manuscripts, letters, and official documents are portable, transmittable, and copyable. But what happens when texts are linked to a particular place - inscribed on its fabric, locked within its walls, intrinsically identified with it as the point of origin or use? What effect does this have on either the text or the place? This session seeks to explore such questions, by examining a variety of textual forms, from Gawain to graffiti. Issues addressed will include the power and signification of text as medium; function and motivation; significance of the choice of site/text; audience and accessibility (physical and intellectual), and site-specific provenance. |