IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 624: The Literary Text and the Natural World
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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| Organiser: | Ad Putter, Department of English, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Fulton, Department of English, University of Bristol |
| Paper 624-a | Climate and the Coral Trade: The Prioress's Rosary (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 624-b | 'Silence n'iert a an mais fille' ('In a year, Silence was no longer a girl'): Relationships between Gender Fluidity and the Natural World (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 624-c | Waxing, Waning, and Guiding: The Sun, Moon, and Stars in Middle English Biblical Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | The papers in this session take literary texts as points for departure for broader reflections on the relations between medieval people and the natural environment. The first speaker relates the description of Chaucer's Prioress to the Mediteranean and transatlantic trade in coral; the second focuses on the Old French Roman de Silence and shows the influence of the natural world on the gender identities of its characters; and the third relates recurrent descriptions of the moon in Middle English Biblical poems to wider beliefs about the place of humans in the cosmos. |