Sessions in Honor of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton II: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Professional Readers
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Dept. of English, Univ. of Notre Dame
Organizer Name
Amanda Bohne; Sarah Baechle
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame; Univ. of Mississippi
Presider Name
Amanda Bohne
Paper Title 1
The Pleasures of Plainness: Ordinary Manuscripts in Extraordinary Traditions
Presenter 1 Name
Siân Echard
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of British Columbia
Paper Title 2
How to Make a Reader
Presenter 2 Name
John Thompson
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Queen's Univ. Belfast/Univ. of Glasgow
Paper Title 3
Chaucer and the Poets of "Grete Auctoritee": Reading the House of Fame in Fairfax 16
Presenter 3 Name
Sarah Baechle
Start Date
12-5-2018 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1220
Description
These panels are in honor of the extraordinary contributions of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton to the study of English vernacular literatures and their manuscript traditions, upon the event of her retirement. Since the beginning of her career, Kathryn’s work has challenged linguistic and disciplinary divides, spanning vernacular and Latin intellectual traditions, reading literary and visual evidence, and elucidating the religious and political implications of Middle English texts. Kathryn’s work has made previously inaccessible intellectual and material traditions widely available to scholars of Middle English literature. This is particularly true of her sustained focus on English literary manuscript culture, which has helped to establish the material text as a worthy subject of scholarly inquiry, uncovering critical, formal, and cultural significance in the consideration of oft-neglected features of a codex--readers’ annotations, illustrations, emendations, linguistic shifts. This panel engages Kathryn’s sustained focus on material traditions of Middle English texts and their readers.
Amanda Bohne
Sessions in Honor of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton II: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Professional Readers
Schneider 1220
These panels are in honor of the extraordinary contributions of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton to the study of English vernacular literatures and their manuscript traditions, upon the event of her retirement. Since the beginning of her career, Kathryn’s work has challenged linguistic and disciplinary divides, spanning vernacular and Latin intellectual traditions, reading literary and visual evidence, and elucidating the religious and political implications of Middle English texts. Kathryn’s work has made previously inaccessible intellectual and material traditions widely available to scholars of Middle English literature. This is particularly true of her sustained focus on English literary manuscript culture, which has helped to establish the material text as a worthy subject of scholarly inquiry, uncovering critical, formal, and cultural significance in the consideration of oft-neglected features of a codex--readers’ annotations, illustrations, emendations, linguistic shifts. This panel engages Kathryn’s sustained focus on material traditions of Middle English texts and their readers.
Amanda Bohne