IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1545: Reading Architecture: Symbolic and Imagined Spaces in the Works of Anglo-Saxon Authors
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Hannah McKendrick Bailey, Balliol College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Britton Elliott Brooks, Faculty of English, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1545-a | Hellish Architecture and the Architecture of Hell in Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1545-b | Alcuin's Propositiones and the St. Gall Plan: An Architectural Riddle (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1545-c | Architecture as Authoritative Reader in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Abstract | The papers in this session stem from a new interdisciplinary discussion group on Architectural Representation in Early Medieval England c. 650-1350, a collaborative project investigating the various ways construction and design were conceived of, lived with, and imbued with significance in both textual and material culture. The papers in this session explore the representations of the architecture of imagined and symbolic spaces in the work of Anglo-Saxon authors at home and abroad, with particular attention to the ways in which these texts create new meaning through the reformulation of older traditions. |