IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1101: The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition, II
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry |
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| Organiser: | Colleen Curran, Faculty of English Literature & Language, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1101-a | More than Just Words: Influence and Inspiration in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1101-b | Memorialising St Wilfrid: The Poetic Act of Memory in Frithegod's Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1101-c | 'Like unto Eternity': Remembering the Heroic Past in Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: 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 how we might go beyond shared lexis in identifying chains of influence connecting Old English poems, how Frithegod's Breviloquium uses the 8th-century hagiographical prose text as a historical framework, and the important role of late antique Latin poetry in the composition of Anglo-Saxon literature in both Anglo-Latin and Old English. |