IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1219: Medieval Literary Crossovers: Characters between Different Spheres and Times, between Social Classes and Cultures in (Post-) Modern Media
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB), Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Jutta Baumgartner, Zentrum für Gastrosophie, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 1219-a | The Once and Future King: Crossing Space and Time in Cinematic Camelot(s) (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1219-b | Mummenschanz in Tintagel: Knight Bedevir's Journey Over the Borders of Cultures, Centuries, and Ways of Living (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1219-c | Medieval Border-Crossers in Modern Counter-Worlds: Neidhart and Helmbrecht (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This session focuses not on geographical borders but on historical, cultural, social and medial ones. It deals with medieval literary figures, either fictional heroes or real (?) producers of literature that cross over borders or switch between areas. What transformations of constructing and percepting a character are connected with those crossings, regarding the changes of times and spaces? In which cultural areas and media did those crossings take place or influence the material and ideological appearance of medieval literary figures in (post) modern times? For instance the perception of time in medieval themed cinematic realisations can be misleading. In the novel by Wilhelm Kubie Knight Bedevir is on his journey through the centuries and the Middle Ages and King Arthur's court. A different image is presented in literary research where the perception of singers and poets are reconstructed. |