IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 337: Bordering Adulthood: Adolescence and Youth in Times of Change, III
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | British Academy / Department of History, University College London |
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| Organiser: | Emily J. Ward, Darwin College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ben Parsons, School of English, University of Leicester |
| Paper 337-a | Queer Youth in the Middle English Pharaoh Pageants (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Sexuality |
| Paper 337-b | A Permanent Wound: Blackness, Fatherlessness, and Lost Inheritances in Moriaen, c. 1050-1350 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities |
| Paper 337-c | Gender Matters, Matters Gender: Transmasculine Potentiality in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | Adolescence and youth were formative times of change in medieval society. Crisis, transformation, and growth could be very real aspects of young people's lived experience, but they were also central elements in contemporary representations of adolescence and youth, as found in a variety of exemplary stories, literary and performative narratives, historical texts, and didactic works. Moreover, structural changes within medieval communities, cultures, and institutions could also impress themselves with particular strength on those navigating the borders of adulthood. The relationship between youth and change was complicated and multifaceted, as this panel shows for the central and later Middle Ages by focusing on perspectives and experiences of queer youth, Blackness, fatherlessness, and transgender expressions. |