Marginal Bodies, Corporeal Communities in Anglo-Saxon England
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Columbus State Univ.
Organizer Name
Shannon N. Godlove
Organizer Affiliation
Columbus State Univ.
Presider Name
Shannon N. Godlove
Paper Title 1
The Borh: Resistance Is Feudal
Presenter 1 Name
S. Jay Lemanski
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Missouri Western State Univ.
Paper Title 2
Guthlac A: Envisioning the Community, Sanctifying the Self
Presenter 2 Name
Curtis Thomas
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Paper Title 3
Warnings from the Grave: Necromancy, Talking Bodies, and the Final Marvel of Wonders of the East
Presenter 3 Name
Jill Hamilton Clements
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Lindenwood Univ.
Paper Title 4
Shame and Sense: Writing the World to Come in the Soul and Body Poems
Presenter 4 Name
Jennifer A. Lorden
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Start Date
13-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 204
Description
Scholars have long recognized the importance of the metaphor of the body and its members as a means for medieval people to explore how their society as a whole accounted for individuals or small social groups on the margins. This session welcomes papers that focus on the role of marginal bodies in Anglo-Saxon England, both physical and/or metaphorical, ecclesiological and/or secular. Topics of interest may include but are not limited to the role of the saint as a palliative body, discourses of disability, illness, dismemberment, and healing, the use of corporeal metaphors to describe and understand the transformation of space for the reform of communities, as well as figures or texts on margins of religious life. The panel will use the metaphor of the body and its members to examine how groups and individuals developed their concepts of constituting or renewing the whole in relationship to their own personal bodies or social groups, where the healing, education, or correction of the members becomes a vital part of the whole body.
Marginal Bodies, Corporeal Communities in Anglo-Saxon England
Bernhard 204
Scholars have long recognized the importance of the metaphor of the body and its members as a means for medieval people to explore how their society as a whole accounted for individuals or small social groups on the margins. This session welcomes papers that focus on the role of marginal bodies in Anglo-Saxon England, both physical and/or metaphorical, ecclesiological and/or secular. Topics of interest may include but are not limited to the role of the saint as a palliative body, discourses of disability, illness, dismemberment, and healing, the use of corporeal metaphors to describe and understand the transformation of space for the reform of communities, as well as figures or texts on margins of religious life. The panel will use the metaphor of the body and its members to examine how groups and individuals developed their concepts of constituting or renewing the whole in relationship to their own personal bodies or social groups, where the healing, education, or correction of the members becomes a vital part of the whole body.