IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 306: Romance and Empire in Middle English Literature

Organiser:	Frederick M. Biggs, Department of English, University of Connecticut
Moderator/Chair:	Elizabeth Biggs, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Paper 306-a	City and Empire: John Lydgate's Troy Book (Language: English) Helen Fulton, Department of English, University of Bristol Index terms: Architecture - General, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 306-b	Spatial Transformations in King Horn, Sir Orfeo, and the Knight's Tale (Language: English) Anna Dow, Department of English Studies, Durham University Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 306-c	Chaucer's Unfinished Canterbury Romances: A Tale of (Literary) Empire Building (Language: English) Frederick M. Biggs, Department of English, University of Connecticut Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Italian
Abstract	This session will consider some of the empires - real, imaginary, and literary - of romances, Lydgate's Troy Book, the King of Tars, King Horn, Sir Orfeo, the Knight's Tale, the Squire's Tale, and Sir Thopas.