Man of Law's Northumbria Revisited

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Stephen Yeager, Mary Kate Hurley

Organizer Affiliation

Concordia Univ. Montréal, Ohio Univ.

Presider Name

Manish Sharma

Presider Affiliation

Concordia Univ. Montréal

Paper Title 1

"Olde Britons Dwellynge in This Ile": Resistant Voices and the Exile Within

Presenter 1 Name

Sheri Smith

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Cardiff Univ.

Paper Title 2

Chaucer's De-colonized Custaunce

Presenter 2 Name

R. S. Sachs

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Arlington

Paper Title 3

Latin, Corruption, and Gregory the Great: Anti-clericalism in The Man of Law's Tale

Presenter 3 Name

Stephen Yeager

Start Date

17-5-2015 10:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

In recent years Middle English studies has begun to engage with its subject's prehistory, manifest both in the renewed interest in "early Middle English" texts and also in the many studies of late-medieval romances, saints' lives and chronicles documenting the Anglo-Saxon period. These studies have challenged not only the traditional periodization of English medieval studies, but also certain fundamental presumptions about medieval understandings of history, nation and geography. In this panel we will integrate these on-going conversations into the criticism of Chaucer, especially the representation of a simultaneously familiar and strange English history in The Man of Law's Tale.

Stephen Yeager and Mary-Kate Hurley