IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1603: Early Arthurian Literature between Hagiography and Fiction
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge / Leverhulme Trust |
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| Organiser: | Francesco Marzella, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Firenze |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Thomas, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1603-a | Arthur Behaving Badly and Saints Being Saintly (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1603-b | Prophecy and Fictive Learning: From Hagiography to the Latin Arthurian (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1603-c | Geoffrey of Monmouth and the (Im)Possibility of Medieval Latin Fiction (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This session focuses on the mutual influence between hagiography and early Arthurian literature in Latin and Welsh. The relationship between the two literary genres will be evaluated not just in terms of contents, but also looking at specific literary aspects such as narrative structure, treatment of the supernatural, moral teaching, political messages, etc. We will illustrate how Welsh hagiography introduced new elements due to the dissemination of the Arthurian legend, and we will discuss how fiction, developing as an independent literary genre in the 12th century, was indebted to the more traditional genre of hagiography. |