IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1710: Reading Crisis through Supernatural Encounters, III
Thursday 4 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organisers: | Natalie Hopwood, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Chris Latham, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Latham, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1710-a | Demonological Influences on Saga Necromancy and Apparitions of the Dead (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Lay Piety and Social History |
| Paper 1710-b | Rumour, Sexual Sin, and the Restless Dead in The Chronicle of Lanercost (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life and Sexuality |
| Paper 1710-c | The Knight, the Maiden, and the Devil: Supernatural Encounters in L'Âtre périlleux (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan and Social History |
| Abstract | This third session brings together three papers that explore the ways in which crises are depicted in supernatural encounters with the walking dead in medieval literature across Northern Europe. In the first paper, Thomas Hughes considers the extent to which the demonological rationalisation of necromancy and other topos influenced by Sami shamanism influenced the depiction of draugar and fyrirburðir in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Stephen Gordon, in the second paper, examines a walking-dead narrative from the Chronicle of Lanercost, arguing how the events of the narrative portray the spiritual and social crises caused by sexual transgressions and alludes to the moral degradations of monastic orders. In the third paper, Arnaud Montreuil examines an unusual supernatural encounter found in the Gawain narrative L'âtre périlleux which involves a living/dead maiden trapped in a tomb with a devil. |