IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 511: Reading and Writing in the Later Middle Ages
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek, Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sabrina Corbellini, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712 EK GRONINGEN |
| Paper 511-a | Authorship and Authority in Late Medieval English and Italian Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Italian, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 511-b | Reading Puss in Books: Interpreting Cats in Texts and Images (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 511-c | The Medieval Reader: Public Reading and Audience (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Literacy and Orality, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | This session is devoted to questions of authorship and readership in the later Middle Ages. The first paper concentrates on questions of authorship on the basis of theoretical texts in English and Italian from the later Middle Ages. The second paper deals with the representation of cats in medieval texts, focusing on the versatile nature of the cat as perceived by writers and readers. The third paper turns to reading and particularly to the question of reading out loud and therefore sees reading as collective experience. This paper confronts medieval ways of reading with modern literary theories which are based on silent individual reading of a text. |