IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1208: Early English Life Cycles: Corpora and Corpses
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Thijs Porck, Centre for the Arts in Society, Universiteit Leiden Harriet Soper, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Christina Lee, School of English, University of Nottingham |
Paper 1208-a | The Deaths of Two Saintly Youths: Alfred the Ætheling and King Edward the Martyr (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1208-b | Life Cycles in the Soul's Address to the Body (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 1208-c | Incorruptible Saint: The Holy Corpses of Anglo-Saxon Women (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | This session brings together papers that deal with the human life cycle in Early English language and literature (c. 500-1350). Paper -a presents a close lexical-semantic analysis of the Old English vocabulary for people at different stages of life and of different genders. Paper -b explores the representation of the aging process in the Worcester Soul's Address to the Body with its image of a newborn crying out in anticipation of its death. Paper -c considers several Anglo-Saxon saints whose corpses were found to be incorrupt upon post-mortem examination; a phenomenon that issued in a stage of their life after death. |