IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2002: Early Medieval Riddles, I

Organisers:	Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Neville Mogford, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper 2002-a	Torture and Metamorphosis in Exeter Book Riddle 26 (Language: English) Jasmine Bria, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Calabria Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 2002-b	Counting the Sheep in Exeter Riddle 13 (Language: English) Rachel Burns, Department of English, University College London Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Philosophy
Paper 2002-c	Aldhelm's Fan Club: Group Identity and the Early Medieval Riddle Tradition (Language: English) Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	These sessions explore the early medieval riddle tradition across a variety of languages, including Arabic, Latin, and Old English. Papers address riddles and riddling through a variety of perspectives and methodologies, including critical theory (ecocriticism, thing theory, queer theory), linguistics, manuscript studies and comparative literature and religion.