IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 130: Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, I: Romance and History
Monday 4 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Victoria Flood, Department of English Studies, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Aisling Byrne, School of Literature & Languages, University of Reading |
| Paper 130-a | Nationalist Versions of the Trojan Legend in Transnational Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 130-b | Romancing the North (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 130-c | Books without Borders: Anglo-French Influences on Older Scots Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | This session, sponsored by the 'Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages' research group, considers the transmission and translation of romances and historical texts across medieval Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and Scandinavia. Representative of an emerging area of comparative insular literary studies, papers consider the movement of the romance of Troy across Europe to Britain and Ireland, and its vernacular re-imaginings; the translation of French and English romances into Middle Scots; and the Norse translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, and the legends of Alexander. Speakers explore the localised appeal of pan-European narratives, and pose new questions about the relationship between literature, language, and geo-political identities. |