IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 128: European Others: Exploring Identity Formation in Medieval Writing from Germany and beyond
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Doriane Zerka, Department of German, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Paper 128-a | King Arthur and Julius Caesar: Two Models of Political and Genealogical Identity Formation in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative |
| Paper 128-b | The Religious Other, or Other Religions?: Identities and Encounters in Late Medieval German and English Pilgrimage Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 128-c | Ispanien?: Space, Otherness, and Self-Advertisement in Oswald von Wolkenstein's Songs (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities |
| Abstract | How did medieval texts conceive of, construct, and define identity? What role did Others play in dynamics of identity formation? How did European literatures interact with each other to build common identities or to create barriers? This session considers historiography, pilgrimage writing, and lyric from the German speaking area and puts them into dialogue with European others - others within Europe or imagined by Europe - to question identity formation on a political, religious, and personal level. From genealogical identity derived from historical figures, to encounters with Others in sacred places and the use of foreign space for literary self-advertisement, this session challenges premodern concepts of Europe, the self and the Other from a transnational perspective, participating in the exciting outward-looking future of medieval German studies in the UK. |