IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1308: Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?: Issues of Power in Medieval French and Occitan Literature
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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Organiser: | Catherine E. Léglu, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
Moderator/Chair: | James R. Simpson, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
Paper 1308-a | 'Chronique qui chante ou chanson qui chronique?': Authoring the Power of Bertrand du Guesclin (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Military History |
Paper 1308-b | The Jeux Floraux: Procession, Poetry and Performance in 14th-Century Toulouse (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
Paper 1308-c | The Overt and Covert Discourses of the Tristan Material (Language: English) |
Abstract | This session will explore tensions between authority (in terms of royal, religious, moral or textual authority) and the subject as it is constructed through biography, processional performance and comic text. The three papers will address the many complex ways in which literary representation may attempt to mould the social, sexual and public experiences of their audiences, authors and performers/readers. In particular, issues of power - of the person, and by extension, of the body - will be contrasted with the symbolic view of authority. |