IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 503: Early Medieval Riddles, I

Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	The Riddle Ages
Organisers:	Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham
Paper 503-a	Queer Things in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Una Creedon-Carey, Department of English, University of Toronto Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Sexuality
Paper 503-b	Ordering the World in the Riddles of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 1553 (Language: English) Thomas Klein, Department of English & Philosophy, Idaho State University Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 503-c	Masculine Identity and Community in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract	These sessions explore the Latin and Old English riddles of early medieval England and Europe, through a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Creedon-Carey explores the queer possibilities of the riddle form, animacy, and intimacy, especially in relation to Exeter Book Riddle 12. Klein discusses one collector's choices in compiling a particular manuscript of Bern, Symphosian, and Aldhelmian riddles. And Neville examines the ways in which the heroic idiom generates a shared masculine identity in the Exeter Book riddles.