| Abstract | Paper -a:
Inns and innkeepers maintained reputations for being disreputable throughout Classical and Late Antique literature. In spite of this fact, many Christian texts include these very places and these very people as integral narrative elements. Why this is the case is the focus of this paper. Is there redemption for the seedy inn, the all-too-available copa? If so, how are they redeemed? I will discuss these questions and show how Christian inns and innkeepers could be distinguished from their more sordid counterparts and what the outcome of this study suggests for our understanding of that most ambiguous trade, hospitality. While archaeological and historical realia will be taken into account, the primary emphasis will be philological and literary.
Paper -b:
El itinerarium de Egeria registra la peregrinación que esta mujer hizo a Tierra Santa (381-84). El manuscrito que conocemos es una copia del siglo XI, pero hay referencias anteriores a las calidades de ésta peregrina, lo que demuestra que sus relatos circularon por Europa a lo largo de la Edad Media. Peregrinar es un elemento más para la construcción de un imaginário de intereses comunes a partir de un método basado en la visión, reconocimiento y relato de la Verdad y de la presencia divina en la Historia. La idea de justicia es esencial al cristianismo y aunque la palabra no aparezca una sóla vez en el documento, ella es el hilo conductor que dá sentido y harmoniza todas las etapas del relato.
Paper -c:
In my paper I would like to explore the influence of the 'ship of fools' metaphor in late Shakespearean plays by investigating the way this image, originating from the late medieval satire of Sebastian Brant, is represented in two dramas, King Lear and The Tempest. The first part of the paper would discuss the origins of the metaphor and the second its variations in the plays laying emphasis on that in these cases the ship imagery aims not at discovering the external world; rather they focus on exploring human nature.
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