Date/Time
Date(s) - 8 Apr 2016
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
The Graduate Center - CUNY
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Join Friends of the Saints this Friday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study (Room 5105) of the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave.) for the following paper and refreshments.
Please RSVP (affirmative only: [email protected]).
April 8, 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave.)
Mo Pareles
Department of English
New York University
“Food for the False Gods: How Meat Matters in Old English”
In Old English iconoclastic writing, the powers of flesh include measurement of other social objects. In Ælfric’s homily De falsis diis (On the False Gods), Daniel embarks on a series of proofs that uses flesh foods to demote pagan gods along the animacy scale, destroying believers along with their idols. Ultimately, the iconoclastic power of animals is not dependent on their life or death; meat’s agency rests on the very instability of the mortal body.