IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 712: Medieval Ecocriticisms, I: Weather and the Limits of the Human
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Ecocriticisms, ARC Humanities Press |
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| Organiser: | Michael Bintley, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael J. Warren, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 712-a | Medieval Cli-Fi and the Asynchrony of Natural Disaster (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Science |
| Paper 712-b | More than Fair-Weather Friends: Animals and the Weather in Old English Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
| Paper 712-c | Nebulous Assemblages: Extended Minds and the Early Medieval Environment (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
| Abstract | These papers address weather in sources from across the Middle Ages to consider how meteorological experiences and reflections link humans more closely and fully to the natural world at large. Kellie Robertson focuses on accounts of a 14th-century storm to explore medieval conceptualisations and depictions of the storm event; Todd Preston traces weather in Old English texts to examine how animals are rendered as cohabitators of wider ecosystems; and Mike Bintley considers how textual representations of weather in the early Middle Ages reflect the role of environment as an integrated element of distributed human cognition. |