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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1508: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, I: Relational Masculinities

Thursday 8 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Organisers:Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Paper 1508-aEnigmatic Masculinities: Locating Gendered Subjectivity in the Riddle Tradition
(Language: English)
Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1508-bFinding Male Friendship in Early Medieval England
(Language: English)
Kelli Conley, Department of History University of Edinburgh
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1508-cCrying Out to Two Lords: Sex and Supplication in Wulf and Eadwacer
(Language: English)
Tom Morcom, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract

These four linked sessions (and a round table discussion) explore the wide range of masculinities and masculine characters found in Old English texts. We seek to examine early medieval masculinities with same critical scrutiny that has been brought to the study of women and femininities in Old English literature. Each session examines the multiple ways in which masculinity is constructed, performed, and subverted in early English texts, in dialogue with various critical frameworks of gender and sexuality. This session (1 of 4) examines relational aspects - both interpersonal and cross-temporal - of masculinities in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature.