IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 851: Comparative Studies of Medieval England and Iceland, II: Literary Genres
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Rebecca Drake, Department of English & Related Literature University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Katharine Marlow, Department of History Durham University |
| Paper 851-a | Imagining Islands: The Enchanted Lands of Arthur in Old Norse-Icelandic Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 851-b | Ships and Sailing in Middle English Romance and Old Norse-Icelandic Fornaldarsögur (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 851-c | Gesta Herewardi and Saga Literature: Mixed Modality in Historical Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | Growing interest in comparative approaches to studying medieval England and Iceland drives this session to consider the purpose of comparative studies of literature across borders from the early to late Middle Ages. Our primary question is, what can we learn about medieval English and Icelandic literature through comparison? Therefore, we seek to understand how literary traditions crossed the Atlantic and the ties that enabled the exchange of literary ideas, as well as how differing natural, social and cultural landscapes of England and Iceland gave rise to different approaches to genres of medieval literature. |