IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 1245: Writing English after 1066, I
Wednesday 8 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Organisers: | Jannis Jakobs, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge James Titterington, Faculty of English, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jannis Jakobs, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1245-a | What Orm Can Teach Us about Chaucer (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1245-b | The Miles Christi and the Sponsa Christi in Medieval Vernacular English Texts of The Life of St Margaret (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1245-c | The Marvellous in 12th-Century Old English Narratives: The Hunt in the Forest (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the beginning of the thirteenth century has traditionally been viewed as a dark one for the writing of English, with most scholarly attention directed towards the languages of the recent conquerors, French and Latin. However, English continued to be written in this century-and-a-bit during which Old English had not quite ended and Middle English had not quite begun. This panel presents papers that shed light on a time when English was not only copied from pre-Conquest sources, but written anew. |