Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Nicole Guenther Discenza

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of South Florida

Presider Name

Nicole Guenther Discenza

Paper Title 1

Construction of West-Saxon and English Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

Presenter 1 Name

Courtnay Konshuh

Presenter 1 Affiliation

St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan

Paper Title 2

Book Ontology and Ptolemaic Learning in the Old English *Boethius*

Presenter 2 Name

Jesse McDowell

Presenter 2 Affiliation

North Carolina State Univ.

Paper Title 3

Alfred's Cottage and Solomon's Temple: A Reconsideration of the Preface to the Old English Soliloquies

Presenter 3 Name

Francis Leneghan

Presenter 3 Affiliation

St. Cross College, Univ. of Oxford

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1145

Description

"Alfredian Texts and Contexts" examines texts, artifacts, events, and other matters connected to Alfred the Great's reign and the works it produced. All three papers for 2017 focus on construction: the construction of national identity in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle through the selection, organization, and elaboration of sources; the construction of the book as both concept and material object in the Old English Boethius; and the construction of buildings in the Preface to the Soliloquies, from Alfred's imagined "cotlyf" to his burhs and towns.

Nicole Guenther Discenza