IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1112: Joyful Living: Pleasure, Sin, and the Political Body in Courtly German Literature
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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Organisers: | Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Alexander Kagerer, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Moderator/Chair: | Berit Skock, Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Paper 1112-a | No Pain - No Gain: Female Pleasure in Middle High German Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German, Women's Studies |
Paper 1112-b | Dangerous Bodies: Physical and Spiritual Love in Marsilio Ficino's De Amore (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Philosophy, Theology |
Abstract | In courtly literature the perfect knight embodies all courtly ideals and virtues - knighthood, lineage, ethos - as well as he is capable of exercising a certain courtly skill set consummately. The worldy pleasures necessesary to constitute a perfect court or a perfect ruler are often in contrast with Medieval ecclesiastic ideals of the miles Christianus. This session focuses on the question how literary texts negotiate problems that can be caused by misguided pleasures by the courtly political body. |