11.00–11.30: Welcome (tea & coffee)

11:30–13:00: Session 1: Alfredian Prose

Raven McGovern (Independent), ‘Enacting Genre: Literary Performatives in the Alfredian Prose Paratexts’

Samuel Masters (University of Nottingham), ‘The Spiritual King: Alfred’s Reformed Leadership Template in the Old English Pastoral Care'

Aaron Keane (University College Limerick), ‘Breton is Garsecges Ealond: Christian Reiteration or Old English Enlightenment? Adaptation, Material Culture and Influence in the Old English Orosius and Bede’ 

13:00–14:30: Lunch

14:30–15:30: Session 2: Medical and Legal Prose

Irene Tenchini (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘Sensing the Body and Soul: Taste, Smell, and Touch in Old English Medical Prose’

Louise Simongiovanni (Sorbonne University), ‘Therapeutic Instructions in Old English Medical Prose: Tracking the Læce and the Early Medieval Patient in the Leechbooks’

15.30–16.00: Tea and coffee break

16.00–17.00: Session 3: Old English Prose after the Conquest: Medieval to Modern Reception 

Andreea M. Toma (Università degli Studi di Padova), ‘Manuscript and Meaning: the Southwick Codex between Codicological Coherence and Digital Representation’

Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), ‘J. R. R. Tolkien’s Scholastic and Literary Appropriations of Old English Prose’

 

17.00: Concluding Discussion and Close

 

Organisers: Dr Amy Faulkner and Prof. Francis Leneghan