IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 801: Anti-Creation in the Anglo-Saxon World

Sponsor:	Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London
Organiser:	Carl Kears, Department of English, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:	James Antonio Paz, School of English, University of Leeds
Paper 801-a	Beowulf's Dark Thoughts: Chaos, Wisdom, and Beowulf, 2327-52 (Language: English) Ruth Wehlau, Department of English, Queen's University, Ontario Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 801-b	The Hostile Places of the Junius Manuscript (Language: English) Carl Kears, Department of English, King's College London Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 801-c	How Devils Propagate: Insceaft in Solomon and Saturn II (Language: English) Daniel Anlezark, Department of English, University of Sydney Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Science
Abstract	This sessions examines representations of chaos, artifice, and devilish craft from the early medieval period. In accounts of creation - of worlds or nations - what is it that stands to threaten order and Godly wisdom? How do devils and their followers mis-create - what technologies, logic, or equipment do they utilise?