Of Mumblings and Carvings: How magical is the Old High German Word rûna (‘rune’) and its Derivations?
December 30, 2022
Invitation to the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the ZeMas UNI BA on February 8, 2023
January 25, 2023
NetMAR Coordinator Stavroula Constantinou will be presenting at the International Symposium
Literary History in a Medieval Eurasian Environment: Methodological and Interpretive Approaches
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 9-11 January 2023
Supported by the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg and the Leibniz Wissenschafts-Campus
9. Januar 2023 – 11. Januar 2023 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
The aim of the symposium is to contribute to the debate about the writing of literary histories, categories of taxonomy, theoretical approaches to premodern texts or any other matter that the participants would see as fitting the broader framework of the symposium. The speakers will not point to influences between the various medieval literatures but rather to look at larger methodological issues from the perspective of one’s own field and area of specialization, but maybe also from other areas, in other words, to present problems in each respective field vis à vis its scholarly history, the history of its respective literature, and its position in a “Medieval Eurasian literary supersystem”. Τhere are sixteen participants: 9 scholars specializing in Greek literature (Classicists/Byzantinists), 2 scholars specializing in Byzantine history, 4 scholars from 4 other major medieval literatures (Slavic, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian). Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University) will join our proceedings as a guest.
For the symposium’s full program, click here.
