IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1731: Tangling with the Classics, III: Medieval Literary Culture
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Jacqueline Burek, Department of English, George Mason University, Virginia Rebecca Menmuir, Faculty of English University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jacqueline Burek, Department of English, George Mason University, Virginia |
| Paper 1731-a | Entangled Affinity in Medieval Irish Classical Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1731-b | 'Muse, tell me (again) of the deeds of Alexander': Classical Reception and (Meta)poetic Entanglement in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1731-c | 'Let clerkis ken the poetis different': Aeneid, Book XIII in Late Medieval Scotland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| 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 Literary Culture' panel investigates this idea in medieval literature, with papers examining networks of literary affinity between classical and Old Irish literature, the role of Old French literary culture in Walter of Châtillon's classicizing Alexandreis, and the way that continuations of the Aeneid prompted literary theorizing in late medieval Scotland. |