Langland's Words

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Piers Plowman Society

Organizer Name

Ian Cornelius, Emily Steiner

Organizer Affiliation

Yale Univ., Univ. of Pennsylvania

Presider Name

Ian Cornelius

Paper Title 1

Marked and Unmarked Language in Piers Plowman

Presenter 1 Name

Tim Machan

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 2

Langland's "Temporaltees"

Presenter 2 Name

Jennifer Jahner

Presenter 2 Affiliation

California Institute of Technology

Paper Title 3

What a Difference a Plate Makes: Langland's Christ-Knight and Incarnational Habitus

Presenter 3 Name

James Knowles

Presenter 3 Affiliation

North Carolina State Univ.

Paper Title 4

Choice of Poetic Words under the Influence of Alliteration

Presenter 4 Name

Tomonori Matsushita

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Senshu Univ.

Start Date

17-5-2015 10:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1155

Description

"Mercy Madame, what is this to mene?" The library of resources for study of Langland's words has grown prodigiously in recent years: Wittig's Concordance (2001), Kane's Glossary (2005), and Schmidt's “Indexical Glossary” (2008) have joined the MED and the seminal studies by Alford. Meanwhile, critical attention to such words as “loller”, “conscience”, “mede” and “truth” demonstrates the persistent value of word-study as an approach to reading *Piers Plowman*. This session's papers build on and extend these investigations. The session will be of interest to specialists on Piers Plowman and also to scholars with interests in language history, lexicography, textual studies, and poetics.

Lawrence Warner