IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 605: Converting the Isles, II: Converting Traditions
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Leverhulme Trust Network 'Converting the Isles' |
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| Organiser: | Brittany Schorn, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roy Flechner, School of History, University College Dublin |
| Paper 605-a | 'Come to me, loving Mary, that I may keen with you': Pagan Past and Christian Present in the 8th-Century Blathmac Poems (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Lay Piety, Monasticism |
| Paper 605-b | Converting Childhood: Shifting Perceptions of Childhood in Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 605-c | Converting Traditional Old Norse Poetics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | This session will consider aspects of cultural changes resulting from conversion to Christianity as manifested in literary texts. Alexandra Bergholm will focus on the 8th-century Blathmac poems from the viewpoint of Marian devotion, by tracing their possible background in the non-Biblical traditions concerning Mary's compassionate suffering at her Son's death, and by offering some thoughts on their significance with regard to the emergence of affective piety in the early Middle Ages. Jessica Storoschuk will examine the concept of childhood in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England as represented especially in penitentials and the Hibernensis. Brittany Schorn will consider the role of the conversion in the medieval redefinition of eddic poetics. |