IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1101: Empires Lost: Writing the Past around Conquered England

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Friends of the Saints
Organiser:	Jay Paul Gates, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Moderator/Chair:	Daniel Thomas, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Paper 1101-a	Anglo-Saxon History and the Wages of Sin: Crime, Punishment, and the Past in the Work of Archbishop Wulfstan (Language: English) Nicole Marafioti, Department of History, Trinity University, Texas Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1101-b	Alienating a Traitor: 'Eadric Streona' in Aelred of Rievaulx's Genealogia Regum Anglorum (Language: English) Jay Paul Gates, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1101-c	The Familiar Aesthetics of Alfredian Friendship in the Proverbs of Alfred (Language: English) Brian O'Camb, Department of English, Indiana University Northwest Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English
Abstract	Inspired by Elaine Treharne's Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Oxford, 2012), this panel builds on conversations started among Anglo-Saxonists working in diverse fields (literature, history, legal studies). This panel focuses on how individuals living in England's late Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest periods (late 10th–13th centuries) engaged with the cultural authorities / authorising culture of the Anglo-Saxons. By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, we explore how English poets, ecclesiasts, and institutions consciously drew upon their Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes and developed sophisticated responses to social, cultural, and linguistic change.