IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1115: Encounters of Christians and Heathens in Medieval Latin, German, and Old Norse Literature and Historiography, II: From 1200 to 1500
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 1115-a | Duke Ernst of Bavaria and the Heathens: Narrative Transformations of the Middle High German Herzog Ernst in Latin and German Versions of the 13th to 15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Hagiography, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1115-b | Names of Christians, Names of Heathens: The Construction of Christian and Heathen Spaces in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Willehalm (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Hagiography, Language and Literature - German, Religious Life |
| Paper 1115-c | Christians and Heathens in the Letter of Prester John in the Reception of Albrecht's Jüngerer Titurel (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin |
| 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. |