IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 303: Books Mediating Borders in Early Medieval England
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Thomas A. Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books & Antiques, West Virginia |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Burns, Department of English, University College London |
Paper 303-a | Writing and Damnation: Inscribing Eternity in Early English Textual Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 303-b | Books in Books of Old English (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 303-c | 'Holtes on ende' ('At the edge of the woods'): The Wooden Codex in The Dream of the Rood (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Abstract | This session examines the ways books and writing mediate various boundaries in early medieval England, from material boundaries between books and other inscribable surfaces, to linguistic and cultural boundaries within and between Latin and English in early medieval textual culture. The proposed papers explore different features of the book as a malleable image and a metaphor that authors employed to express both earthly cultural identity and salvation after death, making the very concept of writing essential to early English conceptions of the border. |