42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 10-13 May 2007
Early Middle English Society I: Women and Devotion
Coordinator: Dorothy Kim
Description: We invite paper abstracts that consider the topic of women and devotion from the twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, in relation to the period’s multilingual, multicultural, and multidisciplinary range of texts. With this in mind, the committee will consider papers that focus on any of the following areas: psalters, books of hours, liturgy, hagiography, guides, music, iconography, etc. We are open to works that consider texts in any of the following languages: Latin, Greek, Anglo-Norman and French, Middle Welsh, Old Irish, Middle English, Old English, Hebrew.
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Early Middle English Society II: Relations, Companions, Derivatives
Coordinator: Sharon Goetz
Description: This panel sets as its frame the non-early Middle English contexts of early Middle English texts. Given the relatively small tally of English texts written before 1300, it is important to recognize that they do not occur in isolation. Instead, they exist (frequently) in company with texts written in other languages, and they show evidence of arising from multilingual moments of reading, writing, and construing. We invite abstracts that investigate concerns pertaining to any of the following interactions: possible antecedents and models for EME texts (or models rejected), such as the pre- and post-Conquest English vitae of Katherine, Margaret, and Juliana; accompaniments to EME texts, such as occur in Digby 86, Jesus 29, Caligula A.ix, etc.; texts reliant upon EME relatives, such as the Ancrene Riwle texts that exist in Anglo-Norman and Latin.