Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1626
Title	Borders, Worlds, Systems: Commercial and Literary Exchange in 15th-Century England
Date/Time	Thursday 7 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Moderator/Chair	Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Paper 1626-a	Traveling Romance: High Medieval Literature in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Venetia Bridges, Department of English Studies / Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1626-b	The Pre-Local Global: A World-Systems Reading of Mandeville (Language: English) Elliot Kendall, Department of English, University of Exeter Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1626-c	Trading Places: The Book of John Mandeville, Markets, and World Systems Theory (Language: English) Craig E. Bertolet, Department of English, Auburn University, Alabama Index Terms: Economics - Trade; Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1626-d	London Merchants and Yorkshire Shepherds: The Mercantilist World System in 15th-Century English Drama (Language: English) Robert Epstein, Department of English, Fairfield University, Connecticut Index Terms: Economics - Trade; Language and Literature - Middle English
Abstract	In keeping with the theme of the congress, this panel explores exchange across borders in late medieval England. Some of this exchange is commercial and some literary, but the panel is informed by World Systems Theory to the extent that the exchange is understood to be guided by supra-national systems, and all of the papers are interested in challenging conventional boundaries of periods, genres, or states.