Rawlinson Center

Sponsors: Cambridge Univ. Press; Richard Rawlinson Center   

Organizer(s): Rosalind Love; Lindy Brady (@email) 

Early medieval England had a wide range of interactions with its closest neighbors, and this session seeks papers exploring these interactions. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: diplomatic exchanges and political negotiations, cultural influences, warfare and violent encounters, trade and economic relations, and religious and intellectual contact. This session welcomes papers exploring any form of interaction between early medieval England and neighboring polities, whether insular or continental.

Proposals for papers are due Sunday, Sept. 15.

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center 

Organizer(s): Lindy Brady (@email); Nicole Discenza (@email)

Early medieval Britain was a place where many languages were spoken, written, and studied. This session welcomes papers exploring any form of interaction between languages in pre-Norman Britain. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: bilingual or macaronic texts, multilingual stone inscriptions, linguistic evidence of interaction between speakers of different languages, legal and literary uses of multiple languages, multilingual manuscript glosses and marginalia, and studies of materials for learning and teaching languages in pre-Norman Britain. We invite proposals from people from any field and any stage of their career.

Proposals for papers are due Sunday, Sept. 15.

Sponsor: Chancery Hill Books and Antiques; Richard Rawlinson Center

Organizer: Thomas Bredehoft (@email)

Runesticks/runestaves; letters (= OE 'stafas' = 'staves, staffs') as sticks; runes named after trees; stone monuments designed to look like trees (crosses); runes on stones. This panel will feature papers that explore trees and stones as features of the textual landscapes of medieval England and/or the productive tensions or curious ironies that link textual tree-metaphors (such as those listed here) and monumental stonework. Papers on the theme that address Ogham or Norse runes are also of interest.

Proposals for papers are due Sunday, Sept. 15.