Conference
46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
- Date
- Friday 13 December 2024
- Time
- Series
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden
Programme
10.00 – 10.25 Doors open
10.25 – 10.30 Welcome
10.30 – 11.00 Grace Catherine Greiner (Utrecht University)
“Getting to Grips with Medieval Matere with Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde”
11.00 – 11.30 Mo Gordon (Leiden University)
“"I have to thank you kingly, but I feel now I must ask you to do me a favour": Tracing the Roots of Scottish English through Modals of Obligation in Late Modern Scottish Pauper Letters”
11.30 – 12.00 Suzanne Klare & Thijs Porck (Leiden University)
“Sword Slashes and Paper Cuts: The Reception of Beowulf in Early Dutch Children's Literature”
Lunch break
13.30 – 14.00 Megan Leitch (University of Groningen)
“The Medieval Middlebrow: Rewriting Romance and Reshaping the Literary Marketplace”
14.00 – 14.30 Aline Douma (University of Groningen / Leiden University)
“A Crisis of Kingship: The Personal and Political Response to the Wars of the Roses in George Ashby's Active Policy of a Prince”
14.30 – 15.00 Sandor Chardonnens (Radboud University Nijmegen) & Kees Dekker (University of Groningen)
“Quid Saxonica cum magia? Old English in an Early Modern Magic Manuscript
Tea break
15.20 – 15.50 Juliane Witte (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
“Hello Stranger: Comparing a Shared Motif in Sir Gawain and Bárðar saga”
15.50 – 16.20 Moritz Draschner (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
“Floris and Blancheflour: Editing Fragmentary Manuscript Witnesses in the Age of Transkribus”
Keynote speaker
16.20 – 17.20 Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster)
“Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English: Looking again at the Impact of French”
17.20 – Conclusion
17:30-18:30 Conference drinks in LUCAS common room
[Arsenaal building, Arsenaalstraat 1; first floor]
Attendance is free, but please let us know whether you will attend by registering via https://tinyurl.com/soemehl46