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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
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-aThe Once and Future King: Crossing Space and Time in Cinematic Camelot(s)
(Language: English)
Marlene Ernst, Zentrum für Gastrosophie, Universität Salzburg
Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama
Paper 1219-bMummenschanz in Tintagel: Knight Bedevir's Journey Over the Borders of Cultures, Centuries, and Ways of Living
(Language: English)
Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg
Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 1219-cMedieval Border-Crossers in Modern Counter-Worlds: Neidhart and Helmbrecht
(Language: English)
Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
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.