IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 812: Medieval Ecocriticisms, II: Conceptual Climates - Humans in Their Place

Sponsor:	Medieval Ecocriticisms, ARC Humanities Press
Organiser:	Michael J. Warren, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Michael Bintley, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University
Paper 812-a	Le Roman de Silence: Species, Gender, Skin (Language: English) Aylin Malcolm, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Science
Paper 812-b	'To the cuckoo's leah': Birds and Place in Old English Place-Names and Charters (Language: English) Michael J. Warren, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Onomastics
Paper 812-c	Embodied Nature and Embedded Bodies in Old Norse Literature (Language: English) Stefka G. Eriksen, Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, Oslo Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Theology
Abstract	These papers address climate broadly as 'locale' characterised by specific conditions, exploring how the natural world features in various conceptualisations of human 'place' in the world. Michael Warren examines birds in Old English place-names as indicators of imaginative connections to local environments; and Stefka G. Eriksen explores embodied nature and embedded bodies in Old Norse literature.