IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1008: Representations of Alexander the Great, I
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Gabriel Wasserman, Independent Scholar, New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gabriel Wasserman, Independent Scholar, New York |
| Paper 1008-a | Thinking with Alexander in Medieval Austria: The Letter to Aristotle on the Situation in India and Its Manuscript Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1008-b | Alexander the Great and Jewish Eschatology: On the Hebrew Alexander Romance in the 13th-Century Book of Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Abstract | Ever since Alexander the Great built his empire in the 330s BCE, his personality and exploits captured the interest and imagination of the people of many lands - both lands that he had conquered, in southeastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, and lands beyond the borders of his empire, in northern and western Europe. In the Middle Ages, the so-called Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes was an especially popular text, or family of texts, among Christians, Muslims, and Jews, in its various versions in various languages. However, this was not the only medieval portrayal of Alexander. The papers in this session discuss the reception of Alexander in the various Medieval traditions. |