IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 312: Carolingian Poetic Borders, III
Monday 6 July 2020, 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 312-a | Walahfrid Strabo's Models for Crossing the Border between This Life and the Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 312-b | The 'Cruel Death' of Children in Carolingian Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety |
| Paper 312-c | Watching Danes Die: Abbo of Saint-Germain's Art of Violent Death (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. These three papers consider how Carolingian poets explored the border between life and death in their works, focusing not only on theoretical modes of understanding the boundaries between the living and the dead, but also on modes of experiencing poetically a range of emotions from grief and despair at the death of beloved children to joy, mockery, and loathing at the death of enemies. |