Workshop/Panel/Conference Organisation by Michael Lysander Angerer
The workshop investigates how literature changes and how emerging written languages, styles, and ... more The workshop investigates how literature changes and how emerging written languages, styles, and narratives arose across diverse geographical and cultural contexts in the medieval world. Focusing on poetry, it explores how authors engaged with local and transregional literary traditions to shape new forms of literary authority and expression. By adopting a comparative and cross-disciplinary lens, the workshop seeks to uncover shared patterns and divergent trajectories in the development of vernacular literatures. This approach offers a fresh perspective on the dynamics of language prestige, cultural transmission, and poetic innovation, particularly the processes through which certain languages came to be recognised as literary languages. Often overlooked, these transitions illuminate the intricate interplay between power, tradition, and linguistic creativity.
The event features opportunities for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange, inviting participants to reflect on how poetry mediates questions of literary prestige, identity, and memory across linguistic and cultural boundaries. At its heart, the project reconceives the medieval world as a space where poetry not only reflected but actively shaped sociopolitical and linguistic transformation.
Speakers: Imre Bangha (Oxford); Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford); Wiebke Denecke (MIT); Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago); Jane Gilbert (UCL); Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale); Alberto Ravani (Princeton); Elizabeth Tyler (University of York).
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Workshop/Panel/Conference Organisation by Michael Lysander Angerer
The event features opportunities for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange, inviting participants to reflect on how poetry mediates questions of literary prestige, identity, and memory across linguistic and cultural boundaries. At its heart, the project reconceives the medieval world as a space where poetry not only reflected but actively shaped sociopolitical and linguistic transformation.
Speakers: Imre Bangha (Oxford); Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford); Wiebke Denecke (MIT); Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago); Jane Gilbert (UCL); Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale); Alberto Ravani (Princeton); Elizabeth Tyler (University of York).