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Medieval Literature

Session 7 - Sunday 1:00-2:30pm
Henry Hall 202
Presiding Officer: 
Thomas Schneider
  1. Gower's Vox and the Horror of Nation. David Marshall, California State University, San Bernardino

    This paper examines Gower’s imagining of English community in the Vox Clamantis. Gower, I argue, appropriates the logic of medieval T-O maps, abjecting the 1381 rebels to constitute a communitarian ideal that is unsettled by the persistence of the abject.

  2. The Liminality of Conversion: Transubstantiation, Metaphor and Vision in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament. Marta Schoel, San Francisco State University

    The classic narrative of host desecration ends with the punishment of the Jew and the cultic triumph of the Eucharist. The Croxton Play of the Sacrament diverges from this prototype thus highlighting metaphorical regeneration as seen in the consecration and the final conversion sequence.

  3. Mystical Pilgrimage: A Journey to Margery Kempe's "Natural Country". Ray Crosby, University of California, Riverside

    Margery Kempe embodies a tension between the lone, ascetic mystic and the curious, communal pilgrim. She is firmly rooted to home and out of place amongst her compatriots, identifying instead with charitable foreigners who are citizens of her "natural country."

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed