IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1601: Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England, II
Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Rebecca L. Stephenson, Department of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca L. Stephenson, Department of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe |
| Paper 1601-a | The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon Glossaries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1601-b | The Cambridge Songs and 11th-Century English Literary Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| 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. |