IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2208: Carolingian Poetic Borders, I
Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | University of Tennessee |
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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 2208-a | Walahfrid Strabo's Boy Martyr, Mammes of Caesarea, and the Borders of Monastic Behaviour (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Paper 2208-b | Ferocious Franks, Refined Romans: 'National' Identity, Epics, and the Poems of Ermoldus Nigellus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 2208-c | Strabo and the Borders of Poetic Propriety: Further Thoughts on the De imagine Tetrici (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought |
| Abstract | Writing Latin verse was the literary form par excellence in the Carolingian world (c. 750-c. 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. The papers presented here examine how these poets reinforced and policed borders of identity, monastic practice, and literary propriety in their works, while simultaneously transgressing boundaries poetically and intertextually to achieve their ends. |