IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1318: Performing Narrative on the Borders between Sacred and Secular
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | ARC Humanities Press |
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| Organiser: | Morgan Powell, Departement Angewandte Linguistik, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften |
| Moderator/Chair: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Paper 1318-a | Tears for Arthur, Tears for Christ: Performance as Mediation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1318-b | Tales and Images of Abbey Foundations in Chronicles of the Anglo-Norman Realm: Material Transfers and Spiritual Communion between Grandees and Cloistered Men and Women (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1318-c | Mapping the Boundaries of Sacred and Secular in Gautier de Coinci's Performance Persona (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Music, Performance Arts - General, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The study of medieval narrative art generally assumes borders between monastery and court or liturgy and entertainment that are reflected neither in textual transmission nor necessarily in the stories they tell. Jongleurs were typically the object of churchmen's polemic, but were they vulgar tempters or instead competitors with a broader repertoire? Literature of monastic origins was not seldom adapted or even conceived to transgress the same boundaries. Narrative often emerges as the key to a mediation across these boundaries, with its performance as the space in which meaning was transported and interchanged. Each of these three papers will explore a different aspect of this interchange. |