IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 717: Cities in the Literary Imagination, I: Cities, Travel, and the Imagination
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Marginalia - Medieval Reading Group, University of Cambridge |
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| Organiser: | Han-Hsi Cheng, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Linda Rachel Bates, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 717-a | ‘How bisie they ben aboute the maze?’: A Land Survey of the Wilderness and Cityscapes in Piers Plowman (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 717-b | ‘Mirabilia Urbis Romae’: Petrarch's Translation of the Eternal City (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Italian |
| Paper 717-c | Dreaming of Chartres (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The aim of this session is to probe the idea of a city — as an icon or an institute of civilisation, a place or a space of everyday life — from the perspective of travel. In medieval literature, on the one hand, most itineraries cannot exclude cities as part of the chosen routes; on the other hand, the nature of a city is defined by the purpose of journey per se. Therefore, the discussion in combination of these two major themes, the urban and the locomotive, functions as a meeting place for diverse possibilities: various genres of literature and types of travel. |