IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1054: New Work in Medieval German Studies from the British Isles
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages - German, University of St Andrews |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Aysha Strachan, Department of German, King's College London |
| Paper 1054-a | Women across Borders: The Case of Elisabeth of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Herzog Herpin (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1054-b | The German Middle Ages in the Anglophone 19th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1054-c | Soteriological Borderlands: The City of Acre in Ottokar aus der Gaal's Book of Acre (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This session showcases exciting new work on medieval German literature by early career researchers in the British Isles. The particular strength and distinctiveness of their perspective lies in their emphasis on non-canonical texts (Zerka, Pretzer), on transnational exchange (Zerka), on historical embedding (Pretzer, Boyle) and on medievalism (Boyle). Zerka will ask what role women, as agents and objects of cultural (ex)change, played in the development of a premodern transnational culture, especially Elisabeth of Nassau-Saarbrücken and her 'Herzog Herpin'. Boyle's paper explores English-language adaptations of Der arme Heinrich, the Nibelungenlied and Kudrun in the context of 19th-century constructions of the nation. Pretzer argues that the portrayal of the city of Acre in the 14th-centuryBook of Acre rationalises the failure of the crusades. |