From Bede’s accounts of Britain’s originary myths to current scholarly and popular engagements with the Anglo-Saxon past, to encounter early medieval England is to depict or enact strangeness.
Taking Sarah Ahmed’s work on embodied strangeness, queer phenomenology, and related approaches as a source of inspiration, this panel welcomes papers that consider the strange in early medieval England. Ahmed’s work on embodied others, for example, leverages feminist theory and postcolonialism to posit the stranger as an embodied, discursive creation formed not as a manifestation...
Read more about ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Encountering the Strange in Early Medieval England, with Martin Foys