IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1618: New Texts and Genres in European Medieval Literature, II
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 1618-a | Arithmetic Books: A New Genre for an Evolving Science (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science |
| Paper 1618-b | The Form of the Excluded: ‘Märendichtung’ as a Deviant Complementary Genre (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Paper 1618-c | Cookbooks and Cooking Terms: A New Genre in Early Modern Time? (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - German, Technology |
| Abstract | The literature of the Middle Ages seems – at least problably 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 phenomenons are to be discussed in this session. |