Female Friendship in Medieval Literature I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Organizer Name
Usha Vishnuvajjala
Organizer Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Presider Name
Usha Vishnuvajjala
Paper Title 1
Female Friendship and Female Audiences in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Presenter 1 Name
Cynthia Turner Camp
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Georgia
Paper Title 2
Female Friendship in Middle English Romance
Presenter 2 Name
Melissa Ridley Elmes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Lindenwood Univ.
Paper Title 3
Female Friendships in the Medieval Alehouse: Obscenity, Peer Education, and Gendered Community in Alewife Poems
Presenter 3 Name
Carissa M. Harris
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Temple Univ.
Paper Title 4
Response
Presenter 4 Name
Karma Lochrie
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Start Date
14-5-2017 8:30 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 210
Description
Studies of friendship in medieval literature have, until recently, tended to focus on friendships between and among men, such as those among knights or those in political communities such as a king's affinity. But recent work on recovering literary depictions of women's experiences, such as the 2011 edited volume The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy and the University of Surrey's project "Women's Literary Culture & The Medieval Canon" have begun to do the work of opening up space in which to investigate friendships between women. As work on early modern women's political friendships demonstrates, this subject is ripe for study. This panel will aim to query some aspects of medieval literary representations of friendships or alliances between women. Papers may consider religious, aesthetic, or political aspects of such friendship in any genre of medieval literature.
Shannon N. Gayk
Female Friendship in Medieval Literature I
Bernhard 210
Studies of friendship in medieval literature have, until recently, tended to focus on friendships between and among men, such as those among knights or those in political communities such as a king's affinity. But recent work on recovering literary depictions of women's experiences, such as the 2011 edited volume The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy and the University of Surrey's project "Women's Literary Culture & The Medieval Canon" have begun to do the work of opening up space in which to investigate friendships between women. As work on early modern women's political friendships demonstrates, this subject is ripe for study. This panel will aim to query some aspects of medieval literary representations of friendships or alliances between women. Papers may consider religious, aesthetic, or political aspects of such friendship in any genre of medieval literature.
Shannon N. Gayk