IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1015: Encounters of Christians and Heathens in Medieval Latin, German, and Old Norse Literature and Historiography, I: From the Early Middle Ages to the 12th Century
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Schwerpunktprogramm 1173 'Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen Mittelalter' (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Forschungsprojekte der Universitäten Heidelberg, München, Saarbrücken und Zürich |
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| Organiser: | Uta Goerlitz, Abteilung für germanistische Mediävistik, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Moderator/Chair: | Uta Goerlitz, Abteilung für germanistische Mediävistik, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Paper 1015-a | Names of Pagans and Christians, Pagan and Christian Names in Early Medieval Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1015-b | The 'Poppo'-Legend in Latin and Old Norse Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 1015-c | Heathens and Christians, Heroes and Saints in the Middle High German Rolandslied and the Old French Chanson de Roland (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German, Religious Life |
| Abstract | In the Middle Ages Non-Christians and in particular Muslims were, from a Christian perspective, often without any differentiation depicted as 'Heathens' whose civilization at the same time seemed strange and captivating. The two sessions sponsored by the Schwerpunktprogramm 1173 'Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen Mittelalter' (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), will ask for narrative encounters of Christians and 'Heathens' in historiographical and literary texts from the beginning of the Middle Ages to 1500 which are written in the German Vernacular, in Old Norse, and in Latin. Thus, the sessions aim to promote discussion and dialogue across the disciplinary boundaries of Medieval German Literature, Linguistics, and History. |