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’ 

13:00–14:00: Lunch

14:00–15:30: 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’

Nicola Pennella (University of Bergamo), ‘(Re)interpreting the king’s fedesl

15.30–16.00: Tea and coffee break

16.00–17.30: 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’

Martina Marzullo (Heidelberg University), ‘Reimagining the Sanctorale: Amy Jeffs’ Saints and the Afterlives of Old English Prose’

17.30: Concluding discussion and Close

 

Organisers: Dr Amy Faulkner and Prof. Francis Leneghan