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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
Organiser:Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York
Moderator/Chair:Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York
Paper 1717-aBefore Landscape: Wynnere and Wastoure's Imperial Terraformation
(Language: English)
Sarah-Nelle Jackson, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 1717-bWorld as Incantation: Language of Nature in Bernard Silvestris' Cosmographia
(Language: English)
Sarah Powrie, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 1717-cScientific Elemental Discourse and Ecocriticism in Chaucer's House of Fame
(Language: English)
Kenna L. Olsen, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta
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.