Medieval History
Explicit Content: Ends and Endings in Medieval Texts
The manuscript context of medieval literature often means that we are
uncertain where one text ends and another begins. The Old English
poems in the Exeter Book are a classic example of this phenomenon.
Within certain genres, such as hagiography, conventional endings
develop which structure the concluding sections of various texts in
parallel ways. Moreover, if a work features a colophon or signature,
it will be appended to the end of the text. In fact, Geoffrey of
Vinsauf wrote in his Poetria Nova, "Let the conclusion, like a herald
when the race is over, dismiss it honourably." This session will
bring together scholars from a range of periods, languages, and
genres to examine how various medieval writers closed the texts they
were penning "honourably," and what issues their sense of an ending,
whether authorial or scribal, raises for audiences both then and now.
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Medieval History
Explicit Content: Ends and Endings in Medieval Texts
Explicit Content: Ends and Endings in Medieval Texts
The manuscript context of medieval literature often means that we are
uncertain where one text ends and another begins. The Old English
poems in the Exeter Book are a classic example of this phenomenon.
Within certain genres, such as hagiography, conventional endings
develop which structure the concluding sections of various texts in
parallel ways. Moreover, if a work features a colophon or signature,
it will be appended to the end of the text. In fact, Geoffrey of
Vinsauf wrote in his Poetria Nova, "Let the conclusion, like a herald
when the race is over, dismiss it honourably." This session will
bring together scholars from a range of periods, languages, and
genres to examine how various medieval writers closed the texts they
were penning "honourably," and what issues their sense of an ending,
whether authorial or scribal, raises for audiences both then and now.
- Manuscript Context For Early Anglo-saxon, Caroline, And Germanic Verse
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016 Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse While there are exemplary surveys of the early insular manuscripttradition by J.J.G. Alexander, Michelle Brown and Richard Gameson, forexample, such works...
- Call For Papers: Late Antique Hagiography As Literature
Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh, 20th-21st May 2015 Texts about ?holy¹ women and men grew to be a defining feature of theculture of Late Antiquity. There is currently an increasing interestamongscholars from different disciplines (history,...
- Early Middle English Society
The Early Middle English Society, which seeks to promote the study and scholarly discussion of English literary and cultural production from the late twelfth century to the mid-fourteenth century, is sponsoring two sessions at the seventeenth International...
- Texts And Contexts: A Manuscript Conference At The Ohio State University
Texts and Contexts: A Manuscript Conference at The Ohio State University *November 6-7, 2009 Sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies The conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres,...
- Call For Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS: Texts and Contexts. A Conference at The Ohio State University, sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, October 26-27, 2007 The conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres,...