IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 204: Concepts of Sovereignty: Medieval Rulers between Literature and History
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Ursula Bieber, Fachbereich Slawistik / Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 204-a | The Correspondence between Iwan IV and Prince Andrej Kurbskij: A Polemic Defence of the Tsar's Policy (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Slavic, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 204-b | The Reluctant Heiress: A Glance on Engeltrud in Konrad's von Würzburg Engelhard (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German |
| Abstract | Medieval Literature mainly was a phenomenon of the ruling class. The rulers were the audience, they partly produced literature and in most cases they were the sponsors of it. So literature was one method of representing power: with literary forms and with its contents. In consequence the ideas of ruling and rulership were important topics in different genres of literature: in poems and in novels as well as in chronicles and in letters. This session will give international examples for original literary constructions of sovereignty and literary presentations of historical kings and queens. |