Lydgate without Chaucer?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer Name
Timothy R. Jordan, Alaina Bupp
Organizer Affiliation
Zane State College, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Presider Name
Alaina Bupp
Paper Title 1
Monastic and Burghal Tensions in the Prologue to the Siege of Thebes
Presenter 1 Name
Timothy R. Jordan
Paper Title 2
Literal Lydgate: An Ovidian Sensus Historialus in The Fall of Princes
Presenter 2 Name
Amanda J. Gerber
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Eastern New Mexico Univ.
Paper Title 3
Lydgate’s Early Poetics of Translatio: Reading and Reson and Sensuallyte
Presenter 3 Name
William F. Hodapp
Presenter 3 Affiliation
College of St. Scholastica
Start Date
9-5-2014 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1225
Description
Can Lydgate be viewed as his own link in the chain of literary history? Or do we heed Lydgate’s own words and recognize that Chaucer’s influence cannot be surmounted? This debate gets at the heart of fifteenth century English literature: how do we deal with self-proclaimed ‘translators’ and ‘compilers’ and their relationship to their sources?
Alison Langdon
Lydgate without Chaucer?
Schneider 1225
Can Lydgate be viewed as his own link in the chain of literary history? Or do we heed Lydgate’s own words and recognize that Chaucer’s influence cannot be surmounted? This debate gets at the heart of fifteenth century English literature: how do we deal with self-proclaimed ‘translators’ and ‘compilers’ and their relationship to their sources?
Alison Langdon