Acts of Mentorship in the Middle Ages

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.

Organizer Name

Anthony Cirilla

Organizer Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Presider Name

Anthony Cirilla

Paper Title 1

Ghostly Mentors: "Motherly" Advice in the Awntyrs off Arthure and The Book of the Knight of the Tower

Presenter 1 Name

Melissa D. Williams

Presenter 1 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Paper Title 2

Scáthach and Scotland: Marginal Women and Central Bonds of Fosterage in Early Irish Literature

Presenter 2 Name

Elizabeth Kempton

Presenter 2 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Paper Title 3

Beowulf: Text as Mentor

Presenter 3 Name

Michael D. Elam

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Regent Univ.

Paper Title 4

Edward Dering, Wannabe Mentor

Presenter 4 Name

Matthew Turner

Presenter 4 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2013 3:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I 102

Description

This session hosts four papers which analyze acts of mentorship in the Middle Ages and their implications in post-medieval settings. Mentorship as an act abounds in both history and literature throughout the medieval period, with a lively culture of debate in systematic theology, literal and literary guides through various types of landscapes. Mentors manifest themselves as allegorical figures who dispense wisdom to distraught narrators, priests bestowing orders upon junior clergy, and young nobles being initiated into royalty by their tutors. Such relationships will be explored by the researchers presenting at this panel.

Anthony G. Cirilla