This year's Societas Daemonetica session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies is simply titled "Hell Studies" and features three excellent papers! Hope to see you there! Details below:
Hell Studies
Sponsor: Societas Daemonetica
Date/Time: Saturday, May 12, 10:00am
Location: Fetzer 2040
Organizer: Richard A. Burley, Boston College
Presider: Nicole E. Ford, Boston University
“I drede we cannot be glad”: Sympathizing with the Rueful Devil: Messenger of Hope and Mirror of Humanity in Medieval and Elizabethan Drama
Brenda Carr, University of Toronto
In a Corporeal Flame: The Development of the Materiality of Hellfire before the Resurrection in Western Eschatology
Michael D. Barbezat, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
The Evolution of Hell as a Home for Satan
Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California–Los Angeles