IMC 2011: Sessions

Paper -a:
Abstract withheld by request.

Paper -b:
El Emperador Trajano gobernó el Imperio Romano en el siglo II de la era cristiana y habilitou una imagen histórica de uno de los mejores gobernantes imperiales. Su imagen histórica impregnou y fue adoptado por los seguidores como la Edad Media. Por lo tanto, nos demuestran como este tipo de imágenes representan el poder y se establecieron como un símbolo de la organización estructural más allá del manejo histórico perciben como las estrategias de los militares romanos y políticos son importantes para la composición política de otros períodos históricos.

Paper -c:
Accounts of the steadfast friendship of Amelius and Amicus spread to all of Europe from 11th-century France; the famous friends even came to be venerated as saints. They are joined, and their friendship proved, by reciprocal ordeals: Amicus defends Amelius in a judicial dual; later, the blood of Amelius's children must be shed to cure Amicus's leprosy. But each friend is proved faithful according to his lights: Amicus stands perhaps as the unblemished ideal, whereas Amelius advances and fails amidst moral hazards that, to be sure, do not bear directly on his lionized friendship. This friendship itself is marked by the social distinctions between the count Amelius, who ascends to become Charlemagne's son-in-law (thanks to his friend), and the chevalier Amicus, who is cast out twice from his own castle and succumbs for a time to leprosy. Their narrative is full of suspense, and bristles with conflictual choices made for the sake of friendship and a range of pious allegiances. My work on the tradition of their story, especially of the Latin materials, includes a new edition of a recently rediscovered hexameter poem (long thought lost) in ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 3718. I propose to present some fresh aspects of the saintly friends' tale as told in Medieval Latin Literature and also of their connection to the pilgrimage of St James.