IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 702: Anglo-Saxon Riddles and Wisdom, II: 'Other' Speaking and Writing
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | The Riddle Ages: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle Blog |
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| Organisers: | Megan Cavell, Department of English, Durham University Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 702-a | Freolic, Sellic: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 702-b | Creation's Chorus: Sound and Sentience in Anglo-Saxon Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 702-c | Riddling is the Best Remedy: Exeter Book Riddle 48 and the Anglo-Saxon Medical Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The papers in Session II address the ways in which Old English and Anglo-Latin riddles negate boundaries and binaries. Thus Dale explores links between and challenges to the oppression of both women and the natural world; Stanton examines the way sound is employed to erode boundaries of species, performer/audience and sentience; and Cavell addresses the relationship between a performative riddle and the use of sacramental vessels and biblical quotation in practical medicine. |