IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1104: Repurposing Saints in Prose from Medieval England, I
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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| Organisers: | Niamh Kehoe, School of English, University College Cork Luisa Ostacchini, Wolfson College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1104-a | Scribal Correction, Adaptation, and Representation in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1104-b | Representing and Repurposing Rome in Ælfric's Lives of St Sebastian and St Swithun (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1104-c | Male Anxiety in the Life of St Cecilia: Examining England from Ælfric to Chaucer (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | This is the first of three sessions aiming to explore how saints' narratives were repurposed and how saints themselves were re-presented throughout medieval England. In doing so, we consider saints' lives in Old and Middle English and/or Anglo-Latin across the borders of language, time, and place, exploring how the repurposing of hagiographic narratives can reflect wider social, political, and geographical concerns and developments. This session examines Ælfric's hagiography in particular, from several angles: editorial and scribal practice; gender identity; and in relation to Chaucer. |