Early English Bits and Pieces
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Manuscript Technologies Forum Interest Group, The English Association
Organizer Name
Elaine M. Treharne
Organizer Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Presider Name
Kathryn Starkey
Presider Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 1
Very Much Blackened, Faded, and Badly Rubbed: Cotton Otho C.i, vol. II, f. 149r Revisited
Presenter 1 Name
David F. Johnson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Florida State Univ.
Paper Title 2
The Fragmented Corpus: Anglo-Saxon Medical Discourse
Presenter 2 Name
Jacqueline A. Stodnick
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Arlington
Paper Title 3
Solomon and Saturn: Binding Fragments and the Edge of Knowledge
Presenter 3 Name
Thomas A. Bredehoft
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Chancery Hill Books
Paper Title 4
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Ruin
Presenter 4 Name
Courtney Catherine Barajas
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Austin
Paper Title 5
Response
Presenter 5 Name
Lisa Fagin Davis
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Medieval Academy of America
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 106
Description
The Old English Corpus exists in forms that are often only fragmentary: manuscripts are acephalous; texts are damaged; our understanding is hindered by lack of cultural context or referent. This session asks what difference such fragmentariness makes to our scholarly efforts to recuperate and interpret our corpus of materials. Each presenter will discuss one case study, and our respondent--an expert in fragmentology--will summarise the papers and contemporary work to collect extant materials.
Early English Bits and Pieces
Bernhard 106
The Old English Corpus exists in forms that are often only fragmentary: manuscripts are acephalous; texts are damaged; our understanding is hindered by lack of cultural context or referent. This session asks what difference such fragmentariness makes to our scholarly efforts to recuperate and interpret our corpus of materials. Each presenter will discuss one case study, and our respondent--an expert in fragmentology--will summarise the papers and contemporary work to collect extant materials.