IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1717: Medieval Environments Sourcebook, III: Borders of Elements and Extractions
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Ecocriticisms / Oecologies Research Group |
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Organiser: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Paper 1717-a | Before Landscape: Wynnere and Wastoure's Imperial Terraformation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 1717-b | World as Incantation: Language of Nature in Bernard Silvestris' Cosmographia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 1717-c | Scientific Elemental Discourse and Ecocriticism in Chaucer's House of Fame (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Abstract | This, the third of three sessions proposed and co-sponsored by the OEcologies Research Cluster and Medieval Ecocriticisms, presents research on boundaries and connections between medieval primary texts and approaches to ecocriticisms, as we move toward assembling Medieval Environments, a collection of primary texts for the teaching and engagement of medieval ecocriticisms, medieval environments, and medieval ecological theoretical approaches. The papers in this session explore how language structures the way medieval authors and scribes imagined and constructed the natural world. |