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.

Session 358, Sangren Hall 1710 (hybrid); Saturday, May 10 at 1:30pm

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.

Session 426, Sangren Hall 4120 (in person); Saturday, May 10, 3:30pm