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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1202: Crossing the Border: Movement and Stasis in Old English Texts

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:University of Nottingham
Organiser:Eleni Ponirakis, School of English, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:Eleni Ponirakis, School of English, University of Nottingham
Paper 1202-aEmotions Inside and Outside: Crossing the Border
(Language: English)
Alice D. Jorgensen, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities
Paper 1202-bCrossing Gender Boundaries: Spiritual Knowledge and Gender Fluidity in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
(Language: English)
Abigail Williams, School of English University of Nottingham
Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities
Abstract

These papers explore the idea of movement or resistance to movement across borders. 'Wondrous wanderings' explores how the non-human moves across engineered and natural boundaries in the riddles, and the resulting emotional responses. 'Emotions inside and outside' looks at how emotions travel across the boundary between inner and outer worlds in the OE prose Guthlac and other texts and 'Crossing gender' looks at how wisdom is gendered in Ælfric's Lives of Saints in those saints who cross gender boundaries.