IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 103: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, I: Embodied Masculinities
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
Paper 103-a | Customary Practices: Embodied Masculinities from the Meadhall to the Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 103-b | The Universal Male Body and the Problem of Women's Bodies in Old English Medicine (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
Paper 103-c | Policing the Saintly Body: The Whole and Its Parts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | These three linked sessions (and a round table) explore the wide range of masculinities and masculine characters found in Old English texts. We seek to examine early medieval masculinities with same critical scrutiny that has been brought to the study of women and femininities in Old English literature. Each session examines the multiple ways in which masculinity is constructed, performed, and subverted in early English texts, in dialogue with various critical frameworks of gender and sexuality. This session (1 of 3) examines bodies and the idea of the body in dialogue with masculine gender performances in early English texts. |