The Kölbigk Dancers: Texts and Contexts of a Medieval Miracle Story

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Bradley Phillis

Organizer Affiliation

Gardner-Webb Univ.

Presider Name

Anne-Hélène Miller

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville

Paper Title 1

The Tale of the Cursed Carolers in Goscelin's Legend of Saint Edith and in the Wilton Chronicle

Presenter 1 Name

Laura Clark

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Collin College

Paper Title 2

The Kölbigk Dancers and Flemish Memory of the Second Crusade

Presenter 2 Name

Bradley Phillis

Paper Title 3

"In Ingland, Yn a Kynges Tyme that Hyght Edward": Vernacular Versions of the Kölbigk Dancers Narrative in England

Presenter 3 Name

Lynneth J. Miller

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Anderson Univ.

Start Date

12-5-2019 8:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1235

Description

This papers presented in this panel investigate the texts that transmit the story of the Kölbigk dancers (the "Cursed Carolers") and the contexts in which they circulated. These papers shed light on how and why the story of the dancers achieved such popularity in the Middle Ages, and how its meanings developed and changed throughout the period. More broadly, this session emphasizes the multiple meanings that short texts based on folkloric stories could have in the Middle Ages. Brad Phillis