IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1123: Romance in Dialogue with Medieval Worlds, II: Geographical Interactions

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Kirsty A. S. Bolton, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture / Department of English, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Madeleine Killacky, Centre for Arthurian Studies, Bangor University
Paper 1123-a	Geographical Imaginings in the Roman de Fergus (Language: English) Laura Bailey, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London Laura Bailey, Faculty of History University of Cambridge Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan
Paper 1123-b	Iceland and the World: Transforming Romance and Exploring Society in the 'Post-Classical' Sagas of Icelanders (Language: English) Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History
Paper 1123-c	Melisende and Melusine: Connections between Matriarchies across the Sea (Language: English) Kirsty A. S. Bolton, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture / Department of English, University of Southampton Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan
Abstract	Scholarship on the genre of medieval romance has long focused on the English and French traditions. This panel explores romance texts and traditions from other regions, such as Scotland, Iceland and Anatolia. These papers examine how romance texts presented society in these regions and were instrumental in effecting change in these societies. The final paper of this panel looks at the effect of queenship in Jerusalem on a major matriarch in the French romance tradition.