IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1518: New Texts and Genres in European Medieval Literature, I
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ZEMAS), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
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| Organiser: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Paper 1518-a | Renewal and Evolution: Narrative Paradigms in Early German Prose Romances (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1518-b | The Path of the Righteous Text: Vernacular Retextualistions of Apocryphal Traditions in Middle High German Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 1518-c | Zum Sprachwechsel Latein-Französisch als Urkunden- und Literatursprache in der Ile-de-France im 13. Jahrhundert (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | The literature of the Middle Ages seems – at least probably because of the scientific way of categorization – to be clearly classified in several genres like 'courtly romance', 'heroic epic', 'Minnerede' or 'Minnesang'. This changes in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times: The number of genres increases and quite a few genres or types of literature were adopted from antiquity and were refined. So on the one hand there are new genres like recipes, on the other hand we find transformations like the change from verse to prose in romances. Some of these phenomena are to be discussed in this session. |