IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 539: The Sensuality of Things, I: Late Medieval German Manuscripts
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Respondent: | Raoul Marc Etienne DuBois, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
| Paper 539-a | Colours in the Illustrated Copies of Richental's Chronicle of the Council of Constance (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 539-b | The Five Senses: Materialities and Symbolism in the Poetry of Oswald von Wolkenstein (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Medieval artefacts transmit intimate insights between meaning and performance. In our first session 'The Sensuality of Things', speakers aim at detecting the sensual dimensions in music, literature, and art within Late Medieval German Manuscripts. In copies of Richental’s famous Chronicle of the Council of Constance, for example, colours are used as a means of communication with its viewers. In the contemporary poetry of Oswald von Wolkenstein things are reflecting meanings between symbolism and sensuality, including all five senses. |