Reading (in) the Middle Ages I

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.

Organizer Name

Rowan Dorin

Organizer Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Presider Name

Björn Klaus Buschbeck

Presider Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Paper Title 1

Reading with the Entire Body

Presenter 1 Name

Landon Reitz

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 2

Reading "Ysengrimus": Interpretive Selection in Late Medieval Florilegia

Presenter 2 Name

Robert Forke

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Paper Title 3

"A Stage in My Brain": Performative Reading in Old English Poetry

Presenter 3 Name

Kaylin O'Dell

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Suffolk Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2019 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1280

Description

This proposed panel will focus on how medieval texts were read by their intended contemporary audiences. As the outpouring of recent scholarship demonstrates, this theme can be approached from multiple disciplinary and methodological approaches; this panel will offer a forum to discuss how a critical synthesis of these approaches might produce new insights into medieval reading practices. ~Rowan Dorin & Björn Buschbeck