IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 620: Between the Old and the New: Cultural Entanglements in Ecclesiastical Texts
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Adrian Israel Rodriguez Avila, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Erik Niblaeus, Department of History, Durham University |
| Paper 620-a | Between Grammar and Musical Performance: The Reception of Tonus in Aurelian of Réôme (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Music |
| Paper 620-b | Veraldar saga: An Icelandic Reconstruction of the History of the World (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 620-c | Beyond the Textual Error: The Child Thor and the 'Karlavagn' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Pagan Religions |
| Abstract | This session will explore how Christian authors reacted to cultural, religious, and artistic ideas from the pre-Christian past in order to reshape it in light of their own reality and perspective. The first paper will study how the concept of 'tonus' was received and in the work of the Carolingian music theorist Aurelian of Réôme; the second will analyse the attitudes of late Antique and early Medieval patristic and mission texts towards gender identities and their relation to paganism; the third, will investigate an unusual description of the Nordic god Thor in a Christian Swedish Chronicle, which might be motivated by a Biblical interpretation of the temple at Uppsala. |