IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 826: Natural Entanglements, III: Crossing Literature, Natural Science, and Philosophical Fiction in Medieval Writing
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre d'Études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, Université catholique de Louvain |
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Organiser: | Antonella Sciancalepore, Centre d'études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
Moderator/Chair: | Antonella Sciancalepore, Centre d'études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
Paper 826-a | Questions of Form in the Poetic Philosophy of the Romance of the Rose (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Philosophy |
Paper 826-b | Great Pieces of Turf (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - Comparative, Science |
Paper 826-c | Empire and Nature: Texts on Alexander the Great, Variety, and the Order of the Cosmos in Southern Italy, 10th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Science |
Abstract | Natural philosophy in the Middle Ages was not confined to scholarly treatises, but crossed both scientific and literary genres. In fact, the discourse on nature could serve strategic purposes because of its potential for mixing different codes, languages and sources. |