Dne 6. srpna 1517 v Praze vyšel žaltář Песни цара давыда еже словуть псалтыръ, jenž otevřel řadu 23 knih Starého zákona tištěných cyrilici. U příležitosti 500. výročí vydání se 8.-9. listopadu 2017 v prostorách Karolina a FF UK uskuteční mezinárodni lithuanistická konference František Skorina a jeho pražská Bible. Mnohojazyčné kulturní dědictví Velkoknížectví Litevského a současnost, která má připomenout význam pražských skorinian v kontextu dějin knihtisku.
Velvyslanectví Litevské republiky, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy a Pražský lingvistický kroužek zvou na zahájení mezinárodní konferenci, které se uskuteční dne 8. 11. 2017 v 9:00 ve Vlasteneckém sálu UK (Ovocný trh 3-5, 116 36 Staré Město). Konferenci doprovodi pětidílný cyklus akvarelů Францискъ Скоринъ (2017) z dílny pražského malíře Eugenа Ivanova.
Vážené kolegyně, vážení kolegové,
srdečně Vás zveme na konferenci „Mocensko-politická prezentace a reprezentace českých králů v Lužicích a ve Slezsku (14. století – 1. polovina 17. století)“, která je již osmým pokračováním cyklu Korunní země v dějinách českého státu. Zasedání se uskuteční 7. a 8. února v prostorách Akdademického konferenčního centra.
Členové CSS a další čeští a moravští medievisté se v hojném počtu účastní nadcházejícího ročníku významné světové medievistické události, International Medieval Congress 2018 na Univerzitě v Leedsu.
Lecturer: Klára Soukupová (Prague).
Annotation:
The genre of autobiography is often situated on borderline between fiction and non-fiction; autobiography refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work of art, a verbal construct. The lecture concentrates on major problems of the genre of autobiography (truth, memory, subjectivity) as well as on history of autobiography (canonical texts) and it goes through development of theory of autobiography in 20th century.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Lecturer: Jürg Glauser (Zürich).
Annotation:
Icelandic literary culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still bears many traces of the medieval tradition. This is also the case when it comes to representations of self-conceptions as expressed in early modern autobiographies. The present paper deals primarily with two representative examples of the genre,
1) the priest Jón Magnússon’s (1610-96) Píslarsaga (1658-59, ‘Story of Sufferings’(English translation by Michael Fell as And Though This World with Devils filled. A Story of Sufferings, 2007)
2) Sjálfsævisaga (1750ff., ‘Autobiography’) by the priest síra Þorsteinn Pétursson á Staðarbakka (1710-85) Beyond being quite remarkable representations of autobiographies in general, the two texts display a number of features that are specific for this genre in the pre-modern era, such as the creations of individual selves in relation to God and society, the importance of Christian faith, belief, religion and theology, the vital role mental and physical health plays in the narratives. In Píslarsaga, an additional element that defines the text in a very specific manner are the descriptions of the prosecution of putative sorcerers in seventeenth century Iceland.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Lecturer: Carolyne Larrington (Oxford).
Annotation:
This lecture will talk about some of the ways in which the poetic form of ‚ævidrápur‘ (deeds of a life) functions within the fornaldarsaga genre in Old Norse. These autobiographically styled poems look back over and reflect a little on the lives of the Viking ancestors of medieval Scandinavians. Some may indeed draw on ancient traditions, others be antiquarian re-imaginings, but their focus on violence, loss, regret – and even love – allows us draw parallels with other kinds of autobiographical composition.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Lecturer: Jan Hon (Berkeley).
Annotation:
Henry Suso’s Vita narrates the life of a „Servant of Eternal Wisdom“ as a path from the state of sin to the state of „Gelassenheit“ (composure/serenity/“let-it-be-ness“) and unity with God. What makes this text unique even in the context of late medieval mysticism is its autobiographical impetus. Though narrated in the third person, the text uses a number of strategies to link the narrative to the historical figure of Henry Suso. That, in turn, makes the hagiographical tone of the account a notably risky endeavor: how can one authorize his own life, filled with self-induced suffering, as an imitatio Christi and, at the same time, present it as an example to be followed by others? The talk will discuss this tension between hagio-graphy and auto-bio-graphy along with the medial strategies in both the manuscript and the print transmissions employed to provide the audience with spiritual participation in the servant’s (self-)torturous way to God.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
