Sacred and Secular Road Trips in Middle English Romance

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for the Development of Middle English Scholars

Organizer Name

David Eugene Clark, Gina Marie Hurley, Justin Lynn Barker

Organizer Affiliation

Baylor Univ., Yale Univ., Purdue Univ.

Presider Name

Eve Salisbury

Presider Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 1

Ascolat to Camelot, Guildford to Winchester: Narrative Travel in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Presenter 1 Name

Kristi J. Castleberry

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Rochester

Paper Title 2

Virtual Pilgrimage and Middle English Romance

Presenter 2 Name

Leila K. Norako

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Paper Title 3

Roadblocks on the Penitential Highway: Geographic and Social Obstacles to Redemption in Sir Isumbras

Presenter 3 Name

Elizabeth A. Williamsen

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato

Paper Title 4

Leaving Warwick for Glory, God, and for Good: Hagiographic Geography in the Auchinleck Guy of Warwick

Presenter 4 Name

Amber Dove Clark

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Austin

Start Date

15-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I Shilling Lounge

Description

Panelists are considering the productive tensions between spatial realities and individual interiority in a range of Middle English romances, the correspondence (or lack thereof) between imagined and “real” geographies, and how spiritual journeys are alternately frustrated and facilitated by physical journeys. They also explore why certain landscapes are conducive (or not) to penitence and prayer.

David Eugene Clark