IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 510: Sports of the Powerful: The Medieval Hunt

Sponsor:	Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
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) Aleksander G. Pluskowski, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Law
Paper 510-b	The Nibelungenlied and its Semi-Fictional Hunting Grounds (Language: English) Siegrid Schmidt, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Salzburg Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities
Paper 510-c	Allegorical Depictions of the Hunt in German Medieval Literature (Language: English) Silvia Ranawake, Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London 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.