IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 632: 'The boundaries of the whole world': Using Source Studies to Rethink Borders in Early Medieval English Homilies
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture |
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| Organiser: | Stephanie Clark, Department of English, University of Oregon |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stephanie Clark, Department of English, University of Oregon |
| Paper 632-a | Apostles without Borders: Apostleship and Pastoral Identity in Ælfric's Catholic Homilies (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 632-b | Gender and Language: A Case Study of the 'Borders' in and between Old and Middle English Preaching Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 632-c | Apocrypha in Early England and the Wider World (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Other, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | The papers in this session demonstrate the way source studies can challenge multiple modern ways of drawing borders in Early Medieval England (EME). Examining homiletic texts, each paper engages with the placement of political or chronological borders, or boundaries between gender, race, or languages in the course of tracing relationships between medieval texts or textual ideas and the sources they draw from. Building on and moving beyond traditional source studies, these papers think critically about source studies' methods and theories and draw in additional theoretical approaches. By so doing, they illuminate ways EME authors make meaning by interacting with, adapting, or 'reading' their source texts. |