IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1741: Textual Thingness, III: The Power of Readable Objects
Thursday 4 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Sophie Marshall, Institut für Germanistische Literaturwissenschaft, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
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Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
Paper 1741-a | Inventories as Artefacts and Texts, 14th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Social History |
Paper 1741-b | Objects to Comment on and an Armour of Sound: On the Medieval Tradition of Glosses and the Carmen ad Deum (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1741-c | Veldeke's Stolen Manuscript: On the Edge between 'Concrete' and 'Imagined' Materiality (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality |
Abstract | This panel discusses the power of texts as objects in given historical (religious or political) contexts. What is the value or benefit of texts beyond their readability - and to what extent do they gain their value from their materiality? |