IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1535: Representing Networks and Entanglements, I: Medieval Narrative
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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| Organiser: | Marianne J. Ailes, Department of French, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Fulton, Department of English, University of Bristol |
| Paper 1535-a | Cross-Cultural Entanglements: Friendships and Liaisons across Religious Divides in Old French Chansons de Geste (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 1535-b | Arthur and Mont Saint-Michel: Disentangling the Semiotic Function of Mountain Landscapes in Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities |
| Paper 1535-c | The King and His Entourage: Representing Kingly Relationships in Angevin Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This session brings together three papers from scholars at different career stages, looking at representations on entanglements (and diis-entangling) in texts in Old French and Middle English literary texts: paper 1 explores cross-cultural forbidden entanglements in paper 1; paper 2 disentangles the semiotic function of mountain landscapes in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Malory's Morte D'Arthur exploring intertextual networks; paper 3 explores homosocial relationships in Old French and Middle English. |