IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 123: Hungry for Knowledge or Just Hungry?: Consuming Middle English Poetry
Monday 4 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: | Katherine Hikes Terrell, Department of English, Hamilton College, New York |
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Paper 123-a | Food and Drink in the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 123-b | Eating His Words: Skelton's Narratives of Food and Consumption (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Middle English, Liturgy |
Paper 123-c | Gluttony, Knowledge, and Consumption in John Gower's Story of Nectanabus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Teaching the Middle Ages |
Abstract | Paper -a: Paper -b: Rusty and moughte eaten, Though eaten by moths - and implicity mouths - the verse can maintain its value. These lines in fact are more important than normally thought: connecting various poems about food, drink, and the tongue to larger crtiques of Skelton's society, these half-eaten verses of Skelton reflect how the reader is expected to consume poetry about the world in order to digest some larger truths. In this paper, I highlight how in both Collyn Clout and Elynour Rummynge, a language of food, eating, and digestion is central to understand how Skelton marries biting social critique with the description of food and drink. Paper -c: |