{"id":3884,"date":"2015-03-31T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=3884"},"modified":"2015-03-31T02:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T02:10:50","slug":"mittman-2008-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/mittman-2008-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mittman (2008 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Asa Simon Mittman<br \/>\n(Arizona State University, Tempe)<br \/>\n&#8220;A Response: \u00a0Answering the Call of the Severed Head&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Abstract of Response Presented at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2008)<br \/>\nSession on &#8220;Heads Will Roll: \u00a0Decapitation Motifs in Medieval Romance&#8221;<br \/>\nSponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by Jeff Massey and Larissa Tracy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2008-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\">2008 Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Published on our first website on 16 April 2012<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>\u00c6lfric of Eynsham translated into Anglo-Saxon an account of the martyrdom of Saint Edmund, King of East Anglia in the ninth century. \u00a0Known for his holiness, Edmund was the unfortunate victim of a series of attacks by the Danes in 870. \u00a0After having been captured and riddled with arrows that failed to kill him, Edmund was decapitated. \u00a0His head was left in the woods by the Danes. \u00a0His followers sought him, and they, as \u00c6lfric tells us, &#8220;frequently called out, just as is the custom of those who often go into the woods: \u00a0\u2019Where are you now, companion?\u2019 \u00a0And that head answered them, saying &#8216;here, here, here&#8217; as often as any of them called, until they all came, on account of its calling to them.\u201d \u00a0I use the framework of the <em>Life of Edmund<\/em> to pull the three papers together and then, following the actions of the martyr-king&#8217;s followers, I call out to each of these \u201csevered head\u201d speakers, asking them to answer a few pointed questions (based on careful reading of their papers ahead of time), in order to spark a lively discussion among the participants and audience.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asa Simon Mittman (Arizona State University, Tempe) &#8220;A Response: \u00a0Answering the Call of the Severed Head&#8221; Abstract of Response Presented at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2008) Session on &#8220;Heads Will Roll: \u00a0Decapitation Motifs in Medieval Romance&#8221; Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Organized by Jeff Massey and Larissa Tracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884\/revisions\/3889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}