Medieval History
This session focuses on Old English poetry datable to between c. 950 and 1150. Many of these poems are embedded in late annals in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; most of them were snubbed by being excluded from volume 6 of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records. As a result, late Old English poems as a group are severely understudied. Indeed, because Old English verse is written out in unlineated text blocks in manuscript, and because most theories of Old English meter are based on putatively pre-950 poems like Beowulf, scholars disagree about the exact number of extant late Old English poems. As recently as 2007, Thomas Bredehoft could identifyan entirely new, never-before-discussed poem. This session explores what the study of short, late, and (often) topical Old English poems might contribute to critical conceptions of Anglo-Saxon literary culture and early English literary history.
Possible paper topics include: metrical form; manuscript contexts and textual transmission; historical allusions; authorship and audience; problems of definition between verse and prose; and transitions to Middle English language and literary cultures.
Submit abstracts by e-mail to [email protected] no later than September 15, 2015.
- £357,430 For Research Into Middle English Verse Forms
Professor Ad Putter of Bristol University?s Department of English has been awarded £357,430 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project that will investigate the verse forms of Middle English romances. Together with Chaucerian verse...
- Call For Papers: International Congress On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mi, May 12-15, 2016
Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016 Sponsored by Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS) Organizers: Johanna Kramer (University of Missouri) and Robin Norris (Carleton University) Deadline: 15 September...
- New Approaches To Old English Biblical Poetry
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- Making Sense: Constructing Meaning In Early English
MAKING SENSE: CONSTRUCTING MEANING IN EARLY ENGLISH edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan. Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 2007). xii, 138 pages. ISBN 978-0-88844-907-8...
- New Books Of Interest
1. John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts SEM 13 (October 2006) XVI+332 p., 8 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback ISBN 978-2-503-51530-4, EUR 60.00 This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly...
Medieval History
CFP on Late Old English Verse
Late Old English Verse
This session focuses on Old English poetry datable to between c. 950 and 1150. Many of these poems are embedded in late annals in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; most of them were snubbed by being excluded from volume 6 of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records. As a result, late Old English poems as a group are severely understudied. Indeed, because Old English verse is written out in unlineated text blocks in manuscript, and because most theories of Old English meter are based on putatively pre-950 poems like Beowulf, scholars disagree about the exact number of extant late Old English poems. As recently as 2007, Thomas Bredehoft could identifyan entirely new, never-before-discussed poem. This session explores what the study of short, late, and (often) topical Old English poems might contribute to critical conceptions of Anglo-Saxon literary culture and early English literary history.
Possible paper topics include: metrical form; manuscript contexts and textual transmission; historical allusions; authorship and audience; problems of definition between verse and prose; and transitions to Middle English language and literary cultures.
Submit abstracts by e-mail to [email protected] no later than September 15, 2015.
- £357,430 For Research Into Middle English Verse Forms
Professor Ad Putter of Bristol University?s Department of English has been awarded £357,430 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project that will investigate the verse forms of Middle English romances. Together with Chaucerian verse...
- Call For Papers: International Congress On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mi, May 12-15, 2016
Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016 Sponsored by Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS) Organizers: Johanna Kramer (University of Missouri) and Robin Norris (Carleton University) Deadline: 15 September...
- New Approaches To Old English Biblical Poetry
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016 Call for Papers: 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University 12-15 May 2016 in Kalamazoo, Michigan Session Title: New Approaches to Old English Biblical Poetry Session Organizer: Jill Fitzgerald...
- Making Sense: Constructing Meaning In Early English
MAKING SENSE: CONSTRUCTING MEANING IN EARLY ENGLISH edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan. Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 2007). xii, 138 pages. ISBN 978-0-88844-907-8...
- New Books Of Interest
1. John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts SEM 13 (October 2006) XVI+332 p., 8 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback ISBN 978-2-503-51530-4, EUR 60.00 This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly...