IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1027: Holy Politics!: Borders between the Sacred and the Political in Medieval German Literature
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Lea Braun, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lea Braun, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Paper 1027-a | Contested Futures: Prophecy and the Border-Dispute between Fate and Politics in the Middle High German 'Alexander' Romances (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1027-b | Charlemagne's Unspeakable Sin and the Politics of Confession (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This panel queries the border between the sacred and the political in medieval German literature. Genres from romances to hagiography and mystical texts negotiate what it means to wield authority in secular and religious contexts. Rather than being diametrically opposed, the political and the sacred frequently blend and borrow from each other. Questions that inspire this panel are: where do the borders between the sacred and the political run? When are they ignored or deliberately subverted? And how do the sacred and the political change after meeting at the border? |