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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1519: New Readings in Old English Biblical Poetry

Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Organisers:Daniel Anlezark, Medieval & Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney
Emma Knowles, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:Daniel Anlezark, Medieval & Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney
Paper 1519-aOld English Biblical Poetry and the Boundaries of Genre
(Language: English)
Francisco J. Rozano-García, School of English & Creative Arts, University of Galway
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1519-bBreaking the Boundaries of Creation: The Great Flood in Genesis A
(Language: English)
Joseph St John, Department of English, University of Malta
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1519-cUrban Wilderness: The Danger of Community in Old English Biblical Poetry
(Language: English)
Emma Knowles, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract

Old English biblical poetry offers a rich and varied corpus of interpretations of the biblical text from early medieval England. This poetry navigates positions across a series of borders; it is teaching tool and literary text, repetition and revision, religious and heroic. In this panel we bring together a series of innovative new readings of Old English biblical literature all connected by the concept of boundaries. The borders of the genre itself will be interrogated, as will the connections between creation and destruction, earth and hell, and city and wilderness.