Wednesdays from 17:30 to 19:00 nám. Jana Palacha 2 room 104
Programme / Syllabus
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3 October: Katrin Kogman-Appel, University of Münster
Jewish Metaphors of Political Power: Ruler Portraits in the Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, c. 1375)
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10 October: Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, University of Zurich
Ambiguous words, prophetic deeds: Augustine on figurative language
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17 October: Kati Ihnat, Univertsity of Nijmegen
Martyrdom and metaphor: Saints as Christian symbols in medieval Iberia
24 October: Elizabeth Archibald, University of Durham
Bathing as metaphor in medieval literature
31 October: Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Issues in the diachronic study of metaphors
7 November: Kathryn Allan, University College London
Borrowing metaphor in early English: new forms, new metaphors?
14 November: Krzysztof Nowak, Lexicon Mediae et Inmae Latinitatis PolonorumInstitute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
FOOD, MEMORY, and TIME in the Middle Ages. Towards corpus study of Medieval Latin metaphors
21 November: Sakari Katajamäki, Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki
Tigerlillia Terribilis, and other concretised metaphors in nonsense literature
28 November: Philip Polcar, University of Vienna
Jerome’s use of metaphors in his letters
5 December: Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan
Conversion as Figure and Event
12 December: Marek Thue Kretschmer, University of Trondheim
Myth and Metaphor in the Medieval Commentary Tradition
19 December: Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick
Biblical allegories of space and object in scholastic and devotional exposition
