Ovid in the Courts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Societas Ovidiana

Organizer Name

Morris Tichenor

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto

Presider Name

Christopher Berard

Presider Affiliation

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 1

Exemplary Ovid: Models of Courtly Conduct in Alfonso X's General estoria

Presenter 1 Name

Erik Ekman

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Oklahoma State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Metamorphoses of Myth in Albrecht von Halberstadt's Medieval Adaptation

Presenter 2 Name

Anna Cappellotto

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. degli Studi di Verona

Paper Title 3

Recasting Eurydice in Sir Orfeo

Presenter 3 Name

Erica Machulak

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 4

Masculinity and Misrepresentation: Henrician Neo-Ovidianism and John Heywood's A Play of Love

Presenter 4 Name

Maura Giles-Watson

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of San Diego

Start Date

8-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1225

Description

Our second panel, “Ovid in the Courts,” considers the influence both on courtiers themselves and on those who aspired to courtly rank. Ovid's amatory works were distilled into models of courtly love, and his epic tales were adapted into chivalric chansons. Vernacular receptions of Ovid’s works proliferated throughout the late Medieval period, and these translations extend beyond mere reproduction from one language to another to furnish us with rich sources for studies of cross-cultural and cross-generic literary metamorphoses. How was Ovid performed?

Morris Tichenor