IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1501: Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England, I
Thursday 14 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Rebecca L. Stephenson, Department of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth M. Tyler, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1501-a | Compiling the Paris Psalter: Latin Literacy and the Formation of the Anglo-Saxon Reader (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1501-b | Language and Latinity as Strategy of Identity Construction in the Writings of the Venerable Bede? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1501-c | Byrhtferth, Computus, and Monastic Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Science |
| Abstract | Our session will use the theme of identity to explore and reassess the field of Anglo-Latin literature in its cultural context. Both before and after the Conquest, the choice to write in Latin itself signified an alliance of a sort with a wider European tradition - although authors' perception of both the tradition and their own relationship to it varied greatly across, and after the Anglo-Saxon period. Moreover, authors had available to them a variety of Latinities: their selection of a particular register and style was fraught with ideological meaning legible to their contemporaries and adopted or challenged by their successors. |