The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Fifteenth-Century Studies

Organizer Name

Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Organizer Affiliation

California State Univ.-Long Beach

Presider Name

Katherine McLoone

Presider Affiliation

California State Univ.-Long Beach

Paper Title 1

Latin Excerpts Attributed to Chaucer in British Library, Sloane 446

Presenter 1 Name

Brandon W. Hawk

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 2

When Did Chaucer's English Grow Old?

Presenter 2 Name

Sarah A. Kelen

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Nebraska Wesleyan Univ.

Paper Title 3

“[S]treite unto my myrrowr and my glas”: Self as Other and Other as Self in Hoccleve’s “My Compleinte”

Presenter 3 Name

Christina Cedillo

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Northeastern State Univ.-Broken Arrow

Paper Title 4

Readers, Writers, and Emotional Blackmail in Hoccleve's La male regle

Presenter 4 Name

Mary C. Flannery

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. de Lausanne

Start Date

10-5-2013 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 204

Description

This panel focuses on writings in Middle English in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. For the 2013 Congress, the British Isles session will feature two main discussions: one regarding the reception of Chaucer among 15th-century writers and readers, and the second regarding questions of identity in the writings of Hoccleve.

Ilan Mitchell-Smith