IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 745: The Materiality of Cities in Medieval German Literature
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Christoph Pretzer, Department of German & Dutch, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Bowden, Department of German, King's College London |
| Paper 745-a | A Collection of Columns in the Kaiserchronik's City of Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 745-b | The Cityscapes in Herzog Ernst B and Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 745-c | From Cities to Kingdoms: The Transformation of Ancient Urban City Spaces in the Apollonius von Tyrland by Heinrich von Neustadt (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German |
| Abstract | This session will examine the depiction and discussion of cityscapes and urban sites, structures, or spaces in medieval German literature. From the anonymous Kaiserchronik's curious collection of columns in ancient Rome, over the marvellous but empty cityscapes of the equally anonymous Herzog Ernst and Konrad von Würzburgs Patronopier and Meliur, to the medieval transformation of ancient cities in Heinrich von Neustadt's Apollonius von Tyrland: Middle High German Literature from the 12th to the 14th century developed a rich tableau of engaging with the materiality of urban sites and cityscapes. The session will show how cities were presented and analysed as more than the sum of their material components but at the same time how important urban materiality was for the medieval imagination of cities. |