IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 531: After the Conquest: Communities, Languages, Ideals, Forms
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Laura Ashe, Worcester College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Elaine Treharne, Department of English, Stanford University |
| Paper 531-a | Falling Standards?: The Collapse of 'Standard' Late West Saxon and Literary (Im)Possibility in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 531-b | Common Languages and Common Texts in 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 531-c | 'Ða ne dorste he hit na leng behealdan': Writing English Visions and Miracles after the Conquest (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This session will address the question of literary communities (real and imagined) after the Conquest, and engage with literate practice, and particularly language choice and form, in order to assess - rather than to assume - the politicized nature of such practice. Papers will consider both monastic settings of production, and aristocratic patronage; analyses will be offered in theoretical, literary-critical, and philological terms. These case studies will illuminate the interaction, interdependence, and independence of Latin, English, and French, in manuscripts and writings which explicitly and implicitly reshape community and/or identity in a multilingual cultural zone. |