IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1608: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, II: Saintly Masculinities

Organisers:	Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York
Paper 1608-a	(Trans)lating Love and Loss in Guthlac B and Felix's Vita S. Guthlaci (Language: English) Christopher Vaccaro, Department of English, University of Vermont Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Sexuality
Paper 1608-b	Masculinities and Virginity within Marriage in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Language: English) Jessica Hancock, GCU London, Glasgow Caledonian University, London Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Sexuality
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 (2 of 4) examines saintly masculinities in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature.