IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 136: Memorising Time: The Cisiojanus as a Complex Storage of Pre-Modern Memory
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Paper 136-a | Singing the Year All at Once: When Memoria Disciplines the Divine Office (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Music, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 136-b | All Days Are Equal, but Some Days Are More Equal than Others: Late Medieval German Cisiojani and Their Structure of Time (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Paper 136-c | The Memory of Saints and His Stratifications: A Philological Approach to the Study of Italian Cisiojani (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Liturgy, Mentalities |
| Abstract | With the so called Cisiojanus, the late Middle Ages invented an artistical way of memorizing the calendar of the saints: Poems which were sometimes complex and beautiful, sometimes a little bit irritating and clumsy, helped to remember every saint for every single day in the year. In Latin at first, but soon in every European vernacular langage, the Cisiojani are transmitting a fascinating and highly differentiated pre-modern memory of time. The single contributions of the sessions will examine musical, philological, and linguistical dimensions of latin and vernacular Cisiojani from the late Middle Ages. |