IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 510: Sports of the Powerful: The Medieval Hunt
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
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Organiser: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
Moderator/Chair: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
Paper 510-a | Power and Predation: Archaeological and Legal Evidence for Elite Hunting Space in Medieval Northern Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Law |
Paper 510-b | The Nibelungenlied and its Semi-Fictional Hunting Grounds (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
Paper 510-c | Allegorical Depictions of the Hunt in German Medieval Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
Abstract | In this session literary hunting will be confronted for the first time with facts about medieval hunting grounds provided by archaeological evidence and elucidation of legal history. The perspective of empirical facts will provide a new approach to the importance and function of hunt in heroic or allegorical epics created for a public exercising power and its noblest sport: hunting. |