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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1626: Borders, Worlds, Systems: Commercial and Literary Exchange in 15th-Century England

Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Moderator/Chair:Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Paper 1626-aTraveling Romance: High Medieval Literature in the Later Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Venetia Bridges, Department of English Studies, Durham University
Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1626-bThe Pre-Local Global: A World-Systems Reading of Mandeville
(Language: English)
Elliot Kendall, Department of English, University of Exeter
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1626-cTrading Places: The Book of John Mandeville, Markets, and World Systems Theory
(Language: English)
Craig E. Bertolet, Department of English, Auburn University, Alabama
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1626-dLondon Merchants and Yorkshire Shepherds: The Mercantilist World System in 15th-Century English Drama
(Language: English)
Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Middle English
Abstract

In keeping with the theme of the congress, this panel explores exchange across borders in late medieval England. Some of this exchange is commercial and some literary, but the panel is informed by World Systems Theory to the extent that the exchange is understood to be guided by supra-national systems, and all of the papers are interested in challenging conventional boundaries of periods, genres, or states.