IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1025: Animals and Materiality in the Arthurian Tradition
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Arthurian Studies, Bangor University |
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| Organiser: | Renée Michelle Ward, School of English & Journalism, University of Lincoln |
| Moderator/Chair: | Renée Michelle Ward, School of English & Journalism, University of Lincoln |
| Paper 1025-a | Animal Similes and the Classical Tradition in Layamon's Brut (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1025-b | Arthurian Animals in Sacred Spaces: Why the Arthurian Beast Went to Church (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1025-c | When a Ten-Point Stag with Metamorphic Horns is Just a Ten-Point Stag with Metamorphic Horns: Alienating People in Book VII of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This session explores animals and materiality within Arthurian traditions, with a particular emphasis on how animals and their bodies figure as objects of veneration and/or consumption within the legend, or how, as objects themselves, they contribute to the legend’s production, preservation and perpetuation. Do animals within Arthuriana have agency beyond their symbolic functions? How might animals be considered a part of the material landscape of the legend both within and outside of the textual narratives? How, where, when, and to what purpose or function are animals found in material Arthurian spaces, and in what ways have animals carried the Arthurian legend across space and time from the medieval period to the present? |