IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 212: Carolingian Poetic Borders, II
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| Organiser: | Matthew Bryan Gillis, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stuart Airlie, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 212-a | Oh, the Irony…: Theodulf and the Niceties of Carolingian Poetry Quarrels (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 212-b | Walahfrid Strabo's Boy Martyr, Mammes of Caesarea, and the Borders of Monastic Behavior (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 212-c | Where the Scribe Ends and the Author Begins (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| 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 presents papers on the literary strategies of Carolingian poets whose works tested and re-established the boundaries of acceptable behavior in the court and the cloister during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. The speakers will consider especially how particular poetic genres offered possibilities for (re-)defining behavior through their modes of communication and their ways of recounting the past. |