IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1320: Medieval Multilingualism
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | World University Network |
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Organisers: | James G. Clark, Department of History, University of Exeter Catherine E. Léglu, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
Moderator/Chair: | Ad Putter, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
Paper 1320-a | The Use of Latin in the Mesnagier de Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1320-b | Languages and Translation in Gaston Febus' Book of Hunting (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 1320-c | Latin Models, Vernacular Voices: The Leys d'Amor and Teaching Occitan Verse in Toulouse (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Educational texts, especially those aimed at a secular and feminine readership, are fraught with linguistic implications. The dialogue between teacher (identified as parent, tutor, older spouse or overlord) and the recipient of the teaching must pass through the vernaculars yet show the 'auctoritas' of Latin. This session will examine the languages of authority and knowledge, in domestic treatises, hunting manuals and poetic treatises of the fourteenth century. |