IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 717: Shifting Temporalities: Narrated Time in Medieval Stained Glass Windows, Romance, and Its Modern Reflections
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein Society |
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| Organiser: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ZeMas), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ZeMas), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Paper 717-a | Temporality in Glass: Narrated Time in Medieval Stained Glass Windows (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General |
| Paper 717-b | Outside of Time: Modelling and Manipulating Temporality in Aventiure-Oriented Chanson de Geste Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 717-c | Temporalities in Markus Vallazza's Intermedial Reception of Oswald von Wolkenstein (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - German |
| Abstract | Similar to the category of gender, medieval temporality proves to be dynamic and changeable, depending on the specific forms, materialities, genres and media of its transmission. The presentations in this session focus on various possibilities of narrated time: perspectives of temporality of salvation in medieval stained-glass windows (focusing on examples from medieval France and Austria); the modelling and manipulation of time in the German prose adaptation of ‘Lion de Bourges’; and the male inscriptions of time in the female body in the German version of ‘Le chevalier de la Tour’, a didactic bestseller of the early modern period. The 25 etchings by South Tyrolean painter and graphic artist Markus Valazza (1936–2019) based on songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein offer the opportunity for comparison across the centuries. |