CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 10
Anniversary edition, celebrating 100 years
of English Studies at the University of Cluj
PANEL ON ‘ALFREDIAN TEXTS AND CONTEXTS’
SPONSORED BY THE ‘CODEX’ CENTRE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25th
11:30-13:00 | Sala Popovici, Facultatea de Litere
Moderator: Adrian Papahagi
Jay Paul Gates (City University of New York) – The Alfredian Prose Psalms and a Legal English Identity
Sharon M. Rowley (Christopher Newport University) – Bishop Lyfing, Crediton, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
Tiffany Beechy (University of Colorado, Boulder) – Mashups and Marginalia: A Shadow Manuscript in the Margins of CCCC 41?
13:00-14:30 Lunch
15-16:30 | Sala Shakespeare, Facultatea de Litere
Keynote: Susan Irvine (University College London) – All that Glitters: Werferth’s Dialogues and the Construction of an English Aureate Style
16:30-17 Coffee Break
17-19 | Sala Popovici
Moderator: Sharon M. Rowley
Hilary Fox (Wayne State University) – Monastic Fosterage in the Old English Boethius
Karmen Lenz (Middle Georgia State University) – Calcidius and Boethius on the Soul: Medieval Readings of the Timaeus
Adrian Papahagi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj) – Glosses and “Glossenglossierung” in the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Traditions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae
Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge) – Reading Boethius in Tenth-Century Canterbury
The conference was followed by a trip to the Alba Iulia, Sibiu, and Cisnădioara.