Toronto Old English Colloquium (cancelled)
Centre for Medieval Studies
The health, safety and well-being of our community members is very important to us. We regret to inform you that owing to the current situation with COVID-19, this event has been cancelled.
9:30-10:45
Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn): “Andreas: The Source Awakens”
Chair: Antonette diPaolo Healey (University of Toronto)
11:00-12:15
Benjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago): “Secrets and Servitude in Riddles and the Law”
Chair: Stephen Pelle (University of Toronto)
2:15-3:30
Kaitlin Griggs (Carleton University): “Elizabeth Elstob and her Sources: Analyzing Similarities in Elstob’s and Ælfric’s Grammar Texts”
Samuel Cardwell (University of Toronto): “Contracting Marriages in Eleventh-Century England: Be wifmannes beweddung”
Alexandra Bauer (University of Toronto): “Heterotopia and the Old English Mary of Egypt”
Chair: Cameron Laird (University of Toronto)
3:45-5:00
Gregory Heyworth (University of Rochester): “Scoundrels and Scholars: Textual Science and the Story of the Vercelli Book”
Chair: Deanna Brook’s (University of Toronto)
Reception to follow. All are welcome.
For more information, please contact Shirley Kinney (shirley.kinney@mail.utoronto.ca) or Fabienne Michelet (fabienne.michelet@utoronto.ca). Generously supported by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of English, the Department of English and Drama (UTM), the Department of English (UTSC), and St Michael’s College at the University of Toronto.