IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1302: Writers and Their Audiences in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Onderzoeksschool Mediëvistiek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1302-a | Transforming Memories: 'The Arian' in the Works of Victor of Vita and Gregory of Tours (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1302-b | Damsels in Drag: Crossdressing Adventurers in Medieval Literature and Modern Fantasy (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1302-c | The Handwriting of Diplomacy (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Performance Arts - General, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | This session investigates persuasive strategies employed by medieval authors to influence their intended audiences and, where possible, the reponses of their audiences. The individual papers will cover different genres, different periods of the Middle Ages, as well as different regions in order to convey something of the rich variety of ways in which writers tried to persuade an audience in the medieval period. |