CONGRESS CANCELED Love on the Battlefield
Description
This proposed session plays on the strengths of the International Courtly Literature Society: interdisciplinarity, paired with the openness for a variety of methodological approaches. Although the title is intentionally kept general to embrace as wide a variety of potential submissions as possible, we expect the papers to gravitate towards issues of alterity and permeability, e.g. race, gender, dis/ability, monstrosity etc. When love and combat clash, opposites attract - such as in the case of the amazons who beat their male foes to later procreate with them, pagan opponents who are vanquished and also converted, or virgin valkyries such as the Nibelungenlied's Brunhild, who loses her strength alongside her virginity to the man who beats her in combat. Shawn Cooper
CONGRESS CANCELED Love on the Battlefield
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This proposed session plays on the strengths of the International Courtly Literature Society: interdisciplinarity, paired with the openness for a variety of methodological approaches. Although the title is intentionally kept general to embrace as wide a variety of potential submissions as possible, we expect the papers to gravitate towards issues of alterity and permeability, e.g. race, gender, dis/ability, monstrosity etc. When love and combat clash, opposites attract - such as in the case of the amazons who beat their male foes to later procreate with them, pagan opponents who are vanquished and also converted, or virgin valkyries such as the Nibelungenlied's Brunhild, who loses her strength alongside her virginity to the man who beats her in combat. Shawn Cooper