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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1612: Climate Dimensions: The Simultaneous Presence of Concrete and Metaphorical Meanings of Climate in (Medieval) Fiction

Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg
Organiser:Manuel Schwembacher, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg
Moderator/Chair:Wolfgang Neuper, Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg
Paper 1612-aNeidhart's Natureingänge: Natural Situations and Political Image
(Language: English)
Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric, Social History
Paper 1612-bNatural and Social Climate in Medieval and Post-Modern Arthurian Literature
(Language: English)
Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg
Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 1612-cOo-de-Lally: Political Climates in Robin Hood Movies
(Language: English)
Marlene Ernst, Zentrum für Gastrosophie, Universität Salzburg
Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought, Social History
Paper 1612-dHot Flashes in Gardens: Medieval Narratives of Temperature Fluctuations in Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages (ONAMA)
(Language: English)
Manuel Schwembacher, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg
Abstract

Terms of climate and weather are often metaphors for social as well as political settings that also appear in medieval texts and their postmodern retellings. In Neidhart's poems initial sequences natural situations of summer and winter are used. These metaphors also mean social and political circumstances in the 13th century. In various Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages as well as modern times the different seasons have an integral part in the stories. They build the poetical frame and are links to the social relationships between Arthur and his knights. Another medieval hero, Robin Hood, is an all-time favourite of audiences around the globe. How different political climates of the production period can change a story will be analysed by looking at movies and TV adaptations.