IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1011: Medieval Wedding Poetry
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Gabriel Wasserman, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Moderator/Chair: | Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds |
Respondent: | Kimberly Klimek, Department of History, Metropolitan State University of Denver |
Paper 1011-a | Heywood's 1554 Wedding Ballad in Light of Medieval Antecedents (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - General |
Paper 1011-b | The Wedding of Adam and Eve in Medieval Jewish Wedding Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Liturgy |
Paper 1011-c | Nova nupta, nupta Deo: Echoes of Antiquity in Medieval Latin Wedding Poems (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Abstract | The papers in this session focus on poetic texts connected to weddings, either as a part of the ritual or in celebration of the weddings. Paper -a discusses John Heywood's ballad commemorating the marriage of Mary Tudor and Phillip of Spain in 1554, in light of its connections to antecedents from the 14th century onward, especially John Lydgate's 1432 poetic commemoration of Henry VI's London entry; the text upholds some inherited tropes, but subverts others. Paper -b discusses poems recited in Jewish liturgy in high medieval France and Germany, which tell the story of Adam and Eve's wedding, the prototype for all subsequent marriages; the role of wedding-maker and guest, played by God Himself in the story, is the model for the role of the community in the medieval weddings. Paper -c is a response to the first two papers, which highlights what these texts can and cannot tell us about the societies that produced them. |