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Lis
7
Čt
The Mystic: Spiritual Medicine and Suffering in The Book of Margery Kempe v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Lis 7 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Mystic: Spiritual Medicine and Suffering in The Book of Margery Kempe @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Laura Elisabeth Kalas Williams (Swansea).

Annotation:

The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1440) is widely considered to be the first known female autobiography in the English Language. Dictated to a number of scribes over her lifetime, the Book narrates Margery Kempe’s (b.1373; d.c.1440) spiritual conversion and her sometimes painful journey towards a holy life. This lecture will reveal the contents of a medicinal recipe that was added to the end of the only surviving manuscript by a late-fifteenth-century reader of the Book, and will explore the significance of such a medical-religious dialogue. The lecture will also consider the broader use of the Christus Medicus (Christ the Physician) motif, and the ways in which Kempe utilises such medieval understandings to achieve union with God.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Lis
14
Čt
The Imprisoned: The Winner Takes it All: Leonora Christina’s Memory of Sufferings v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Lis 14 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Imprisoned: The Winner Takes it All: Leonora Christina's Memory of Sufferings @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecurer: Pernille Hermann (Aarhus).

Annotation:

Leonora Christina (1621-1698), the daugther of the Danish king Christian IV, spent more than two decades in prison, accused of being the accomplice of her husband, Corfitz Ulfeldt, whom was killed for high treason. From this experience grew a most fascinating autobiography, with high narrative quality and an immensely high amount of details from everyday life in prison. The lecture will introduce to Leonora Christina’s autobiographical works, it will discuss how this highborn 17th-century women created the image of a strong and righteous heroine, and how she renewed the autobiographical genre by establishing new textual dialogues. The autobiography of Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is translated into English in Memoirs of Leonora Christina (transl. F.E. Bunnett) London 1872.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Lis
21
Čt
The Convert: Narrating the New Self: Conversion Stories as Autobiography v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Lis 21 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Convert: Narrating the New Self: Conversion Stories as Autobiography @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Ryan Szpiech (Michigan).

Annotation:

In this lecture, I will discuss the first-person accounts of various medieval religious converts including Hermann the Jew, Abner of Burgos, and Anselm Turmeda. I will consider how the basic form of a conversion story—from Paul and Augustine to Bunyon, Rousseau, and Joyce—lends itself to narrative drama, suggesting that autobiography is not just a portrait of the self, but a story of the self’s transformation.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Lis
28
Čt
The Agha: Talking about the Self in the Ottoman World v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Lis 28 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Agha: Talking about the Self in the Ottoman World @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Petr Kučera (Hamburg).

Annotation:

It has been assumed by scholars that, in the Ottoman world, autobiographies were extremely rare due to the collectivist nature of the Ottoman-Islamic culture where adherence to a fixed canon of narrative instruments and a strict separation between the public and the private formed an obstacle to the individualistic expression of the Self. This lecture will show that it is rather our fixation on certain genres that hinders us to see autobiographical traits in texts that usually do not fit the category “autobiography”. Furthermore, it will offer an analysis of one of the most famous Ottoman-Turkish autobiographical works, Osman Ağa’s fascinating account of his captivity in Austria and his subsequent carrier as interpreter and diplomat for the Imperial Court (written 1724-1725).

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Pro
12
Čt
The Abbot: Guibert of Nogent: A Medieval Childhood v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Pro 12 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Abbot: Guibert of Nogent: A Medieval Childhood @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Jeff Rider (Connecticut).

Annotation:

Guibert of Nogent (c. 1060 – c. 1125) was a northern French Benedictine monk, historian and theologian who ended his life as the abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy. His autobiographical work – De vita sua sive monodiarum suarum libri tres – is usually considered the first autobiography since Agustine’s Confessions. He was raised by his widowed mother, and his childhood, which he describes in some detail in his autobiography, seems to have been especially complex and stressful and offers us intriguing insights into family dynamics at the end of the eleventh century.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Pro
19
Čt
The Queen: Encomium Emmae: Writing the Personae of Emma of Normandy v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Pro 19 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Queen: Encomium Emmae: Writing the Personae of Emma of Normandy @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Katherine Weikert (Winchester).

Annotation:

Who justifies the past? This lecture will examine the Encomium Emmae Reginae through the lens of biography, drawing upon an archaeological approaches to the sense of time. Through biography, the tool used by Queen Emma to attempt to control not only her own reputation but the Anglo-Scandinavian monarchs in England, this lecture will seek to illuminate how we can understand Emma, the person, as well as Emma, the political Navigator.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Led
9
Čt
The Emperor: Multiple Layers of Memories and Identities in the Autobiography of Charles IV v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Led 9 @ 17:30 – 19:00
The Emperor: Multiple Layers of Memories and Identities in the Autobiography of Charles IV @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Balázs Nagy (Budapest).

Annotation:

The talk will address some conceptual issues of memory and identity in the autobiography of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. Charles who was baptized as Wenceslas had a special personal connection to his double names and in context the question of the duplicate identity will be discussed also. The autobiography exemplifies references to personal and dynastic elements of the shaping of memory. Charles himself used various means of memory to establish his own position. The talk will argue for a complex understanding of this unique text of the fourteenth century.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Led
21
Út
Hlína a kamení: kolokvium CSS
Led 21 – Led 22 celý den
Hlína a kamení: kolokvium CSS

Kolokvium CSS pro rok 2020 otevřené pokročilým i začínajícím medievistkám a medievistům všech specializací a pracovišť. Přihlášky zasílejte do 30. listopadu 2019.

Detaily a vysvětlení naleznete v tomto PDF; program zde a materiály k jednotlivým příspěvkům zde.

Zář
21
Po
Letní konference UNCE v Hlavní budova FF UK, m. 217
Zář 21 celý den
Letní konference UNCE @ Hlavní budova FF UK, m. 217

Konferenci pořádá klasickofilologická sekce. Pozvánku naleznete zde.

Dub
15
Čt
100. JOUR FIXE: Lipnická bible – Štít víry v neklidných časech pozdního středověku
Dub 15 @ 17:00
100. JOUR FIXE: Lipnická bible - Štít víry v neklidných časech pozdního středověku

Jubilejní stý žůrfix se koná v zoomové aplikaci. Tématem bude Lipnická bible a její nedávný všestranný výzkum, jejž realizoval mnohačetný tým pod vedením Lucie Doležalové. Jednotlivá témata spojená s Lipnickou biblí představí Lucie Doležalová, Karel Pacovský, Světlana Müllerová, Zuzana Smetanová, Ondřej Trepeš a Ondřej Fúsik.

Link pro připojení zde.

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