Fifty Shades of Green: Hagiography and Demonology in the Pearl-Poet Corpus

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Pearl-Poet Society

Organizer Name

B. S. W. Barootes

Organizer Affiliation

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Presider Name

Ashley E. Bartelt

Presider Affiliation

Northern Illinois Univ.

Paper Title 1

Confessing to Fairies

Presenter 1 Name

Richard Firth Green

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Romance in Saint Erkenwald: Blending the Pagan Past and Christian Present

Presenter 2 Name

Jenna Schoen

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

Description

Between the celestial city and the shady Green Chapel, the miracles of a London bishop and the Leviathan-underworld in the belly of a sea beast, the works of the Pearl-poet explore the full range of the divine and the infernal. The papers in this session will interrogate the poet’s use of hagiographic tropes as well as material from folk traditions as he crafts his supernatural narratives. Benjamin Barootes