Plunder (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
BABEL Working Group
Organizer Name
Eileen A. Joy
Organizer Affiliation
BABEL Working Group
Presider Name
Myra Seaman
Presider Affiliation
College of Charleston
Paper Title 1
The Wycliffite Bible as Foxe's "Furta Sacra"
Presenter 1 Name
Kathleen E. Kennedy
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Pennsylvania State Univ.-Brandywine
Paper Title 2
Venetian Vectors of Plunder
Presenter 2 Name
David M. Perry
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Dominican Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Math of Longing: Counting in Love Diagrams and Lyric Poetry
Presenter 3 Name
Anna Klosowska
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Miami Univ. of Ohio
Paper Title 4
Chaos and Noble Designs, or, Blunder then Plunder?
Presenter 4 Name
Susan Nakley
Presenter 4 Affiliation
St. Joseph's College, New York
Paper Title 5
Plundering History: Fraternal Organizations and the Middle Ages
Presenter 5 Name
Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Kenyon College, Eastern Michigan Univ.
Paper Title 6
Stop, Thief!
Presenter 6 Name
Valerie Vogrin
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Peanut Books
Start Date
11-5-2013 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 158
Description
Fifteen of Hrothgar's house-guards / surprised on their benches and ruthlessly devoured, / and as many again carried away, / a brutal plunder. ~ Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
This roundtable session invites short presentations that would explore texts and other artifacts (which could philosophy, theology, poems, romances, histories, manuscript illuminations, archaeological goods, music, handbooks, scientific treatises, rules, architecture, etc.), and/or any aspect of scholarship on the Middle Ages, that engage, practically and theoretically, consciously or unconsciously, in plunder and plundering -- defined as taking, stealing, pillaging, rapine, ransacking, spoiling, piracy, embezzlement, thieving, booty, depredation, conquest, despoiling, desolation, capture, seizure, sacking, looting, and robbery. It is hoped that presentations will trace some of the ways in which "plunder" has served as an historical actant, "making things happen" (for good or ill) that could not be anticipated in advance and which (somewhat and somehow) escapes full human control.
Eileen A. Joy
Plunder (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 158
Fifteen of Hrothgar's house-guards / surprised on their benches and ruthlessly devoured, / and as many again carried away, / a brutal plunder. ~ Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
This roundtable session invites short presentations that would explore texts and other artifacts (which could philosophy, theology, poems, romances, histories, manuscript illuminations, archaeological goods, music, handbooks, scientific treatises, rules, architecture, etc.), and/or any aspect of scholarship on the Middle Ages, that engage, practically and theoretically, consciously or unconsciously, in plunder and plundering -- defined as taking, stealing, pillaging, rapine, ransacking, spoiling, piracy, embezzlement, thieving, booty, depredation, conquest, despoiling, desolation, capture, seizure, sacking, looting, and robbery. It is hoped that presentations will trace some of the ways in which "plunder" has served as an historical actant, "making things happen" (for good or ill) that could not be anticipated in advance and which (somewhat and somehow) escapes full human control.
Eileen A. Joy