IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 112: Carolingian Poetic Borders, I
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| Organiser: | Matthew Bryan Gillis, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Irene van Renswoude, Huygens ING, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam / Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 112-a | Strabo and the Borders of Poetic Propriety: Further Thoughts on the De imagine Tetrici (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 112-b | Echoes of Ermoldus in Walahfrid's De imagine Tetrici (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 112-c | Franks, Romans, Pagani: 'National' Identity in the Poems of Ermoldus Nigellus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | Writing Latin verse was the literary form par excellence in the Carolingian world (c. 750-1000), which produced the largest body of Latin poetry since antiquity. Nevertheless, Carolingian Latin poetry remains a largely under-studied topic. This session brings together papers concerning two premier poets from the reign of Louis the Pious, Walahfrid Strabo, and Ermoldus Nigellus, whose writings described the political and military might of the Frankish empire at its height. The papers presented here examine how these poets reinforced and policed borders of identity, Christian morality and literary propriety in their works, while simultaneously transgressing literary boundaries poetically and intertextually to achieve their ends. |