Travel and Exploration in Early Middle English Texts will take place on Thursday, 13 May 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in 2303 Sangren (session 105):
Presider: Dorothy Kim, Vassar College
“Ful nobelelike upon a stede” or “Overþwert upon an asse”: Portrayal of Travel and Traveling in the Middle English “Matter of England” Verse Romances
John Ford, Univ. Champollion
Monstrosities in English Mappae Mundi and Grayson Perry Map of Nowhere
Andrea Jones, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Familiar Foreigners: The Non-monstrous Other in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Sarah Andyshak, Florida State Univ.
We are co-sponsors of Lawman in His Early Middle English Context, to take place as session 123 immediately afterwards (3:30 p.m.) in 105 Valley I:
Presider: Kenneth J. Tiller, Univ. of Virginia’s College at Wise
The Friendship of God and of Kings in Lawman’s Brut
Joseph D. Parry, Brigham Young Univ.
Morality and the Monstrous in Lawman’s Brut
Carla M. Thomas, New York Univ.
Unfettering the Welsh in Lawman’s Brut and the South English Legendary
Dorothy Kim, Vassar College
“Þon lawen þe stoden a þon ilke dawen”: The Divisions of the Past in Lawman’s Brut
Scott Kleinman
Respondent: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Brown Univ.
Original CFP:
Session One: Travel and Exploration in Early Middle English Texts
Abstracts are invited for papers dealing with descriptions of travel, exploration, migration and/or conquest in Early Middle English texts, and with relations between such texts and travel accounts in other texts. Please send abstracts to Dorothy Kim by September 15, 2009.
Possible subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- Descriptions of travel, origins, discovery, conquest
- Relations between texts and maps
- Relations between narrative texts and travel accounts
- Geography and ethnography
- Utopian and/or dystopian narrative
- Texts written by travelers or migrants
- Texts as sources of information for travelers
- Awareness of linguistic consequences of travel
- Manuscripts which bring together texts with an interest in travel, geography, ethnography and/or conquest
- Texts which “travel together”, appearing as a corpus in various manuscript contexts
- Travel (e.g., geographically, socially) of manuscripts
- Travel (e.g., geographically, socially) of individual texts in the manuscript tradition
Session Two: Lawman in his Early Middle English Context
Co-sponsored by The International Lawman’s Brut Society and the Early Middle English Society
The International Lawman’s Brut Society and the Early Middle English Society propose a co-sponsored session for the next International Medieval Congress, which seeks to open bring together the interests of these two societies. Lawman is one of the earliest of early Middle English writers, but he is often read in isolation from other early Middle English texts. By encouraging conference participants to re-examine Lawman’s Brut in the light of other work in the literary community of England from twelfth and thirteenth centuries, we hope to advance our understanding of both.
Please send abstracts to Kenneth Tiller.