IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1024: Food and Feast in the Robin Hood Tradition
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) |
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| Organiser: | Lesley Coote, Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Hull |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Northern Colorado |
| Paper 1024-a | 'Cheese in my bosom': From Marion and Robin (!) to Robin Hood (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 1024-b | 'Whatso þai have, it may be myne, / Corne and brede, ale and wyne': Carnivalesque Feasting in the 15th-Century King and Commoner Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought, Social History |
| Paper 1024-c | Violence at the Feast in Medieval Outlaw Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Social History |
| Abstract | Food - getting it, keeping it, giving it, and eating it - is central to the stories which make up the Robin Hood tradition. This session interrogates some of the elements of the Robin Hood tradition, namely English outlaw stories, 'king and commoner' tales, and Old French jeux, in order to reveal some of the rich signification and the functions of food in these stories and their medieval contexts. |