Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

408. Ranges and Reaches of Early Middle English

10:15–11:30 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8216, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer

Presiding: Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1. “‘The Proverbs of Alfred’ and the Beginnings of English Literature,” Christopher Cannon, Univ. of Cambridge, Girton Coll.

2. “Somerset before Dante: The Boundaries of Regionalism in Early Middle English,” Scott Kleinman, California State Univ., Los Angeles

3. “English and Cornish: A Marches Conversation,” Jennifer Miller, Univ. of California, Berkeley

4. “Define ‘Early’: Fourteenth-Century Readers of Thirteenth-Century Texts,” Matthew Fisher, Univ. of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall

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