Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses II: Touching the Ovide moralisé
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Lucas Wood
Organizer Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Presider Name
Lucas Wood
Paper Title 1
Acteon and His Dogs
Presenter 1 Name
Peggy McCracken
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Paper Title 2
Fortune's Touch: Christine de Pizan's Encounters with the Ovide moralisé
Presenter 2 Name
Miranda Griffin
Presenter 2 Affiliation
St. Catharine's College, Univ. of Cambridge
Paper Title 3
Ovid Moralized Twice: On Three Glossed Manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé
Presenter 3 Name
Mattia Cavagna, Thibaut Radomme
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. catholique de Louvain, Univ. catholique de Louvain/Univ. de Lausanne
Start Date
11-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
From the 12th through the 15th centuries, the Augustan poet Ovid's commanding presence in French and Anglo-Norman vernacular literature took complex and varied forms that recent criticism has interpreted in increasingly compelling ways. Moving beyond the question of “influence”, this pair of sessions on “Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses” will approach the medieval French reception of Ovid's Latin poetry as a case study in the techniques and stakes of cultural translation. By tracing the development and transmission of innovative Ovidianisms--that is, the evolution of markedly Ovidian but distinctively medieval discourses, themes and motifs--over the course of the Middle Ages, the sessions will also uncover the ways in which medieval poets use the Ovidian tradition to wrestle with (and transform) generic paradigms and literary ideologies and to construct personal and textual authority.
Lucas Wood
Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses II: Touching the Ovide moralisé
Fetzer 2030
From the 12th through the 15th centuries, the Augustan poet Ovid's commanding presence in French and Anglo-Norman vernacular literature took complex and varied forms that recent criticism has interpreted in increasingly compelling ways. Moving beyond the question of “influence”, this pair of sessions on “Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses” will approach the medieval French reception of Ovid's Latin poetry as a case study in the techniques and stakes of cultural translation. By tracing the development and transmission of innovative Ovidianisms--that is, the evolution of markedly Ovidian but distinctively medieval discourses, themes and motifs--over the course of the Middle Ages, the sessions will also uncover the ways in which medieval poets use the Ovidian tradition to wrestle with (and transform) generic paradigms and literary ideologies and to construct personal and textual authority.
Lucas Wood