IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1615: Outlawed Bodies
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | International Association for Robin Hood Studies |
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Organiser: | Lesley Coote, Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Hull |
Moderator/Chair: | Alexander L. Kaufman, Honors College / Department of English, Ball State University, Indiana |
Paper 1615-a | ‘Waif is that which no one claims’: Women, Outlawry, and Exclusion in 13th-Century English Law (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Women's Studies |
Paper 1615-b | 'The Nut Brown Maid' (c. 1502) and Later Maid Marians (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1615-c | A New Perspective on the Dying Confession of Jack Straw (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History |
Abstract | The body of the outlaw is a cultural space which is by turns desirable yet proscribed, dangerous yet endangered, elusive and 'other', yet also bought and sold. These papers study the performed body, its nature and its implications. |