IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 620: Performing Narrative on the Borders between Sacred and Secular
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press |
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| Organiser: | Morgan Powell, Departement Angewandte Linguistik, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften |
| Moderator/Chair: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Paper 620-a | How to Show Meaning: Performative Aspects of Allegory (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 620-b | Mapping the Boundaries of Sacred and Secular in Gautier de Coinci's Performance Persona (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 620-c | Tears for Arthur, Tears for Christ: Performance as Mediation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Theology |
| Abstract | The study of medieval narrative art generally assumes borders between monastery and court or liturgy and entertainment that are reflected neither in textual transmission nor necessarily in the stories they tell. Jongleurs were typically the object of churchmen's polemic, but were they vulgar tempters or simply competitors with a broader repertoire? Did allegory necessarily recur to systems of sacral coded meaning? Narrative often emerges as the key to a mediation across these boundaries, and its performance as the space in which meaning was transported and interchanged. Each of these three papers will explore a different aspect of this interchange. |