IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1732: Finding the Height: Aspects of Elevation and the Perception of Vertical Structures in Middle High German Texts
Thursday 4 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Nina Victoria Hable, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Matthias Meyer, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 1732-a | Sitzen: Konstruktion von Höhe und Rang (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 1732-b | The Downfall of Angels and Knights (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Theology |
| Paper 1732-c | Placing Heaven and Hell (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Theology |
| Abstract | In Middle High German Texts from the 12th and 13th century heroes get around a lot. But mostly they travel the earth on ground level and rather enter mountains than to climb them. Knights fall from their horses and angels from their ancestral places, but hardly one seems to be able or willing to climb up. And in those texts heaven and hell are places that have not yet found their final position in the height of the heavens or the centre of the earth. This session wants to answer the question if at that time motion is mainly linked to the plain level of the earth or if this is something that is underlined by a change we can perceive in the texts themselves. Are heroes of texts that have been written later more affected by ups and downs as their predecessors? |