IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1631: Tangling with the Classics, II: Medieval Ideologies
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Jacqueline Burek, Department of English, George Mason University, Virginia Rebecca Menmuir, Faculty of English University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Menmuir, Faculty of English University of Oxford |
| Paper 1631-a | Between Admiration and Contempt: Virgil's Entanglements in the Old French Roman de Dolopathos (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1631-b | High Walls and Broken Towers: The Ruin as Political Poetry in a Latin Context (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1631-c | Virgil in 13th Century Southern Italy: Local and Imperial, Material and Spiritual (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This panel is one of a series of panels entitled 'Tangling with the Classics' which together explore how the relationship between classical and medieval texts might be considered a kind of entanglement. These panels complicate the idea of classical reception in the Middle Ages, by reimagining it not as a linear movement but as a tangled mass of threads, in which classical authors are equally likely to ensnare or to be ensnared by medieval writers. The 'Medieval Ideologies' panel investigates this idea in the context of medieval politics and religion, with papers examining paganism and conversion in the Old French Roman de Dolopathos, the connections between Roman ruin poetry and imperial ideology in the Old English Ruin, and the political utility of Virgil's vita in German literary culture. |