IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1512: Middle English Middles: Hegemony, Resistance, and the In-Between

Organiser:	Kathryn Maude, Department of English, American University of Beirut
Moderator/Chair:	Riwa Roukoz, Department of English, American University of Beirut
Paper 1512-a	Tears for Souvenirs: Margery Kempe's Midlife Tour of Jerusalem (Language: English) Kathryn Maude, Department of English, American University of Beirut Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life
Paper 1512-b	Stuck in the Middle with You: Aspiration and the Undetermined in Sir Orfeo and the Awntyrs off Arthure (Language: English) Rob Brown, Department of English, Harvard University Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought, Rhetoric
Abstract	This panel starts from the middle, investigating the indeterminate and in-between in Middle English texts and manuscripts. Beginning from the troubled and productive centre and bringing together Margery Kempe and the anonymous authors of romance, we explore the entanglements of hegemony and resistance within Middle English textual culture. The papers focus on Margery Kempe's midlife crying and its roots in her travels between England and Jerusalem as well as aspiration and indeterminacy in The Awntyrs off Arthure and Sir Orfeo.