Session1610
TitleBeyond Medievalism: New to Old across Place, Bodies, and Language, I
Date/TimeThursday 7 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
 
OrganiserCarl Kears, Department of English, King's College London
Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
 
Moderator/ChairCarl Kears, Department of English, King's College London
 
Paper 1610-a 'Caedmon on the shell tip': Reading Old English with Lynette Roberts and Brenda Chamberlain in Wales
(Language: English)
Francesca Brooks, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York
Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Old English; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 1610-b Across the Border: Anti-Nationalism and Radical Translation of Early Medieval Texts in Contemporary Poetry
(Language: English)
Rowan Evans, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Medievalism and Antiquarianism; Performance Arts - General
Paper 1610-c Gazing on Guthlac's Reliques: John Clare, Early Medieval Saints, and Walking the Fenland Landscape
(Language: English)
Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature - Old English; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
 
AbstractThese sessions examine movements across and between the medieval, the modern, and the contemporary in literature, by bringing together researchers and practitioners. Reflecting on processes that allow us to cross the temporal and physical boundaries of language, place, material culture, and performance, these papers will discuss poetic practices that collapse distinctions between the 'medieval' and the 'modern'. They will be bidirectional in thinking of the Middle Ages as not just source material, but as live material. How might we submit to or inhabit practices of contemplation we find in medieval 'matter' right now? How is medieval culture changed or transformed when it is reread through modern works? Where might this thinking backwards get us?