IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 329: Writing Reform in Medieval Britain
Monday 6 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Kate Ash, Department of English, Liverpool Hope University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Macmillan, Department of English, Liverpool Hope University |
| Paper 329-a | St Margaret the Reformer?: Fictions of 11th-Century Church Reform in Scotland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 329-b | Judicial Reform in the Poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Law |
| Paper 329-c | Marian Influence and Literary 'Reform' in the Bannatyne Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session will analyse how medieval English and Scottish writers responded to contemporaneous legal and religious reforms, seeking to address how literary texts are circumscribed by social expectations of change. The three papers, dealing respectively with literary representations of St Margaret of Scotland as a church reformer, the incorporation of judicial reform in Chaucer's House of Fame and Lydgate's Temple of Glass, and the influence of the Scottish Reformation on the compilation of the Bannatyne manuscript focus their attention on the intersection of the legal, the ecclesiastical, and the literary to question the function of reform in the medieval literary imagination. |