With
apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers for the International Medieval
Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
10-13 May 2007
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, sponsors two sessions on:
The Exeter Christ Revisited
Twenty years ago, George Hardin Brown wrote that the “composite
art” of Old English religious poetry, specifically the Exeter Christ
I poem, is “marvellous, even
miraculous” in its ability to capture and express difficult and “paradoxical” Christian
doctrine.
This session solicits papers on all aspects of the Exeter Christ
poems (Christ I, II, III).
In particular we welcome papers which build on the tradition of those how have
sought to interpret the Christ
poems via axes of doctrinal, philosophical, aesthetic, stylistic and figural
interest. We also encourage papers which treat the manuscript context of the Christ poems.
Papers are welcomed on any one of the three Christ poems, but we also seek papers
which regard the effect of the three poems as a ‘composite’ whole and study
connections of language and theme across the three. Can we read the Exeter Christ
as an intellectual whole? If so, why has it generated far less scholarly
interest than Beowulf? These sessions aim to provide a forum in which the
discussion of the Exeter Christ
is furthered and the appreciation of the poems fostered.
Please send
abstracts by 10 September 2006 via email to either of the
organisers:
Carolin Esser [log in to unmask]
or
Bruce Gilchrist [log in to unmask]
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