IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 301: Sessions in Honor of Tom Shippey, II: Poems of Wisdom and (L)earning

Sponsor:	Department of English, University of South Carolina
Organiser:	Alexander Vaughan Ames, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Moderator/Chair:	Martin Arnold, Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Hull
Paper 301-a	Money, Goods, and Property in the Proverbs of Hendyng: Social Class and the Audience of the Wisdom Poem (Language: English) Graham Johnson, School of Arts & Humanities, Reinhardt University Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 301-b	Economic Erudition in the Old and Middle English Debate Tradition (Language: English) Alexander Vaughan Ames, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract	Professor Tom Shippey pioneered the study of Old English 'poems of wisdom and learning'. This session honors his efforts by exploring the social and spiritual economy of poems of wisdom and learning in both Old and Middle English. Paper -a addresses the Middle English 'Proverbs of Hendyng' and their preoccupation with money, goods, and property. Paper -b calls into question Anglo-Saxon economy of fate as it relates to the events portrayed in 'The Battle of Maldon'. Paper -c explores the exchange of social and spiritual currency in Old and Middle English debate poetry.