IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1724: From Joy to Sorrow: Feasting and Its Emotional and Pecuniary Concomitants
Thursday 7 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und frühe Neuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Manuel Schwembacher, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Manuel Schwembacher, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
Paper 1724-a | How to Settle a Drinking Bill: Reckoning Books and the Regula Virginis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Science |
Paper 1724-b | The Emptiness of Plenty: Food, Wine, Love, and Hate in Gottfried's Tristan and the Icelandic Tristrams Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - German |
Abstract | Narrative approaches to feasts can be found in different contexts within a wide variety of medieval texts and genres. Amongst others, these depictions are frequently characterized by sheer opulence and an excessive abundance of goods. Unsurprisingly, such bold narrative richness often contrasts with real conditions and reflects in different ways economic tensions and pecuniary problems. This section discusses manifestations of such relationships of tension in different genres (Arthurian romances, drinking songs, as well as reckoning books). |