IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1001: The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition, I

Sponsor:	A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Organiser:	Colleen Curran, Faculty of English Literature & Language, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Robert Gallagher, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Paper 1001-a	Remembering the Canticles in Old English Verse (Language: English) Emily V. Thornbury, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Theology
Paper 1001-b	Inscribing the Saints at York: Alcuin and the Roman Epigraphic Tradition (Language: English) Christopher Scheirer, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1001-c	Beyond the Bible: Anglo-Saxon Influence on the Old English Judith (Language: English) Andy Orchard, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	Anglo-Saxon England was relatively unique within early medieval western Europe, in that both a Latin and vernacular poetic tradition existed. This session will focus on earlier liturgical verse in Anglo-Saxon England, Alcuin's profound engagement with Roman epigraphic verse in his York poem, and the various ways in which a consolidated perspective on Judith within the Anglo-Saxon poetic corpus as a whole underlines the author's artistry and originality.