IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1118: Crossing the Borders of Language: The Dissemination of Medieval Short Stories across Europe
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Brevitas: Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Kleinepik |
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| Organiser: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Paper 1118-a | Latin Thinking in German Minds: The Speculum Sapientiae and Its Paths to the German Vernacular (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1118-b | Optical Theory and Feminine Auctoritas within Chaucer's the 'Tale of Melibee' (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy |
| Paper 1118-c | The Migration of a Medieval Narrative across Three (or More) Language Barriers (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Semitic, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | As often observed, the basic plots of narratives are constantly in motion: they cross the borders of languages, of cultures, and of countries. Whereas traditional research - most famously the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index - has tried to classify and to describe this kind of dissemination, modern research often uses specific case studies to analyse the movement of one specific story across language borders. Against this background, the panel aims to highlight the circulation of medieval short stories in different tongues, contexts, and circles, constructing a network of narration in similarity and variation. |