IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 827: Birds and Battles: Carolingian Poetic Materialities
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| Organiser: | Matthew Bryan Gillis, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Paper 827-a | The Fight of the Raven: Uses of Bird Metaphors in the Poems of Alcuin and Theodulf (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities |
| Paper 827-b | Theodulf and Moduin: 'The Battle of the Birds' in Context (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities |
| Paper 827-c | Re-Presenting War in Abbo of Saint-Germain's Bella parisiacae urbis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities, Military History |
| Abstract | The Carolingian Era produced medieval Europe's first great era of Latin poetry. This poetry's importance in political, religious, and educational spheres has long been recognized. Taking up the themes of birds and battles in verse, this session considers the following questions: How did poetry remake the material in the 8th and 9th century, and how did the material shape the poetry of that time? The goal of the session is to uncover some of the imaginative ways in which Carolingian poets and readers related the material world to their greatest intellectual and spiritual concerns. |