Bodies, Bones, and Burial: Death in Early Medieval Texts and Culture II

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Jill Hamilton Clements

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham

Presider Name

Lindy Brady

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Mississippi

Paper Title 1

The Divided Bodies of Oswald and Edwin, Northumbrian "Heads of State"

Presenter 1 Name

Sharon M. Wofford

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Mississippi

Paper Title 2

Reading the Dead: Agency and Corpses in Old English Poetry

Presenter 2 Name

Mary Kate Hurley

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Ohio Univ.

Paper Title 3

Discourses of Death as Useful and Useless in Old English Poetry

Presenter 3 Name

Harriet Soper

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Start Date

10-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Sangren 1730

Description

This session features papers that examine features of death, dying, and the dead in the early Middle Ages from a range of disciplinary approaches, including medieval archaeology, literature, history, theology, and art history. The purpose of the session is to consider the physical aspects of death (e.g., funerary rituals and burial, the veneration or translation of bones), the theological or social concerns about the bodies of the dead, the literary or artistic representations of dying and death, and the commemorative practices that continued to connect the worlds of the living and the dead.

Jill Clements