Our first official Kalamazoo session is tomorrow, Thursday, May 12, at 1:30pm! Come out and hear our speakers! Brenda Carr will be talking about the continuance (or re-emergence?) of medieval devils on the Elizabethan stage; Anna Clarke will be talking about the Old English Soul and Body and what it tells us about conceptions of the afterlife; and Asa Mittman (President of MEARCSTAPA) will be presenting on the angelic fall in the Junius manuscript. It looks to be an interesting session, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Session 76 (Fetzer 2040): Hell Studies
Sponsor: Societas Daemonetica
Organizer: Richard Burley, Boston College
Presider: Nicole E. Ford, Boston University
“ . . . o vile earth, worse for us devils, than hell it self for man!”: Why Helpful
Devils of Medieval Exempla Re-emerge in Elizabethan Theaters
Brenda Carr, Univ. of Toronto
Re-animating the Flæschord: Resurrection, Regeneration, and Retribution in
the Old English Soul and Body
Anna Clarke, Univ. of York
Tumbling toward Hell: The Space of Transformation in Junius 11
Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico
