You are kindly invited to The First Meeting of the Medieval and Early Modern Mnemonic Society which will take place 27th-28th September 2019 in the Library of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Jilská 1, 1st floor. The topic is Neighbours in the Landscape of Memory.
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.
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese Mgr. Eliška Poláčková, PhD., oddělení antické kultury a její recepce Kabinet pro klasická studia FLÚ AV ČR; Katedra divadelních studií FF MU Brno.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University cordially invites you to the lecture Memory – Medium – Myth: The Mnemonic Character of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature- The lecture will be delivered by Jürg Glauser (University of Zurich and University of Basel).
For further information contact: marie_nov@ seznam.cz.
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.
Jste srdečně zváni na přednášku doc. Martina Nodla (CMS) Jak znormalizovat českou medievistiku.
Přednáška je součástí jednoho z bloků pracovního setkání Normalizace humanitních věd v Československu (1969-1989), které se uskuteční 14.-15. října 2019. Kompletní program zde.
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese doc. PhDr. Jiří Roháček, CSc., Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, vedoucí oddělení dokumentace.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
Annotation:
This workshop aims at bringing together scholars from different parts of Europe with an interest in questions related to geographical mobility in the Middle Ages and/or the early modern period. Traditional views on peasantries notwithstanding, geographical mobility has been a fundamental feature of European village life for many centuries. Numerous empirical studies have confirmed this. But what does it tell us about medieval and early modern Europe, and peasant societies, beyond the simple fact that people occasionally moved, then as they do today? What does it mean?
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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.
Přednáška z cyklu Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat.
Přednášku pronese Mgr. Filip Srovnal, PhD., Ústav pro dějiny umění FF UK, Národní památkový ústav Praha.
Kompletní program kurzu zde.
