Oral Tactics of Medieval Outlaw Literature

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Organizer Name

Lesley Coote; Alexander L. Kaufman

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Hull; Ball State Univ.

Presider Name

Alexander L. Kaufman

Paper Title 1

Mobile Cultures, Mobile Texts

Presenter 1 Name

Lesley Coote

Paper Title 2

"Rash Speach and Hote Contention": Enditement in the Sloane Life of Robin Hood

Presenter 2 Name

Dean A. Hoffman

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Deep Education Institute

Paper Title 3

Sounding the Horn: Outlaw Tales in a Digital Soundscape and English Classroom

Presenter 3 Name

Valerie B. Johnson

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Montevallo

Start Date

10-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1235

Description

This formal session of papers explores the modes of writing and of performance (and their interconnectedness) that exist within medieval outlaw tales. From the The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston to the late-medieval rhymes, plays, games, and “talkings” of Robin Hood, medieval outlaw tales are, like the medieval lyric, ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational works or literature. This session, inspired by Ingrid Nelson’s recent study Lyric Tactics, explores the ways in which the religious, societal, political, and manuscript contexts inform the genre, form, vernacular language, semantics, and voice of a medieval outlaw tale.

Alexander L. Kaufman