"Time passeth faste away": Proverbs and the Manipulation of Chronology

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Proverb Society (EPS)

Organizer Name

Susan E. Deskis

Organizer Affiliation

Northern Illinois Univ.

Presider Name

Sarah M. Anderson

Presider Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 1

Interpreting Time in Gnomic Poetry: Semantic and Chronological Ambiguity in the Old English Maxims and Middle Welsh Bidiau

Presenter 1 Name

Joseph Shack

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Harvard Univ.

Paper Title 2

John Heywood's Early Modern Dialogue and Epigrams on Proverbs and the Structural Use of Proverbs in Three Old English Poems from the Exeter Book

Presenter 2 Name

Brian T. O'Camb

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Indiana Univ. Northwest

Paper Title 3

"Diverse schools make perfect clerks": A Proverb on Marriage in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and The Merchant's Tale

Presenter 3 Name

Johanna Kramer

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Paper Title 4

"Be of good chere, it is yet but early daies, God will sende us some buiers": Spoken Proverbs as Text in Sixteenth-Century English and Spanish Trade Language

Presenter 4 Name

Barbara L. Prescott

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Start Date

10-5-2019 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 2335

Description

Papers on proverbs and chronology, treating texts in English, Welsh, and Spanish, from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Susan E. Deskis