IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2308: Carolingian Poetic Borders, II
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | University of Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | Matthew Bryan Gillis, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Matthew Bryan Gillis, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Paper 2308-a | The 'Cruel Death' of Children in Carolingian Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety |
| Paper 2308-b | Walahfrid Strabo's Models for Crossing the Border between This Life and the Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Paper 2308-c | Innovative Exegesis?: Alcuin's Reference to Wisdom's House (Prov. 9.1) and the Liberal Arts (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Philosophy, Theology |
| 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 presents papers that consider how Carolingian writers explored crossing both poetic and cosmic boundaries in their works, as well as wrestling with the limits of human wisdom. The speakers will consider how authors haunted their poems with the dead and with ghostly echoes of other poets' words, and how they revealed the extent to which one might cross over the borders between life and death, the human and divine. |