IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1223: Romance in Dialogue with Medieval Worlds, III: Relationships and Social (Dis)Order

Organiser:	Kirsty A. S. Bolton, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture / Department of English, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Kirsty A. S. Bolton, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture / Department of English, University of Southampton
Paper 1223-a	French Fabliaux as Courtly Romance?: Violence, Women, and the Peasant Knight (Language: English) Emilee Ruhland, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History
Paper 1223-b	'Bitwexe a þrall & a king': Precarity, Status, and Male Coercion in King Horn and Amis and Amiloun (Language: English) Hannah Piercy, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Social History
Paper 1223-c	Bromance at the Library: Intimate Male Friendship according to the Ritual Brotherhood Literature in Charles V's Librairie du Louvre (Language: English) Savannah Pine, Christ's College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - French or Occitan
Abstract	This panel focuses on relationships in romance texts and how they reflect social relationships and social (dis)order. While scholarship has focused on the lovers in romance, two papers in this panel examine homosocial relationships, both on and off the page; another questions violence against women; while the final paper looks at the influence of romance texts on social behaviour in the Tudor court.