"I just don't want to die without a few scars": Medieval Fight Clubs, Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)Order

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham Univ.

Organizer Name

Steven Bruso, David Pedersen

Organizer Affiliation

Fordham Univ., Fordham Univ.

Presider Name

Steven Bruso

Paper Title 1

The Männerbund and Anglo-Saxon Succession

Presenter 1 Name

Jeremy DeAngelo

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 2

Performance Anxieties: The Knightly Body, Englishness, and Communal Integrity in Beues of Hamtoun

Presenter 2 Name

Jenna Stook

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Mount Royal Univ.

Paper Title 3

"Blinn shall I never ere my brain to-briste or my breste other!": When Violence Affirms Masculinity but Fails the Warrior in the Alliterative Morte Arthure

Presenter 3 Name

Jessie Bonafede

Presenter 3 Affiliation

California State Univ.-Fullerton

Start Date

8-5-2014 7:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1360