Forgotten Texts from the Sixteenth Century II: Charting New Pathways into the Narrative World of the Reformation Era

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Organizer Name

Albrecht Classen

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Arizona

Presider Name

Albrecht Classen

Paper Title 1

"Y'all gon make me act a fool": The Intersection of Narrative and Fool Literatures in Thomas Murner's Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren (1522)

Presenter 1 Name

Isaac S. Schendel

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 2

Virtual Iconoclasm? Late Medieval German Meisterlieder of Statue Destruction

Presenter 2 Name

Alison L. Beringer

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Montclair State Univ.

Paper Title 3

"Der Triumphus Divi Michaelis" (1597) und das Fronleichnamsspiel: Ein neuer Blick auf das Jesuitentheater

Presenter 3 Name

Jenny Körber

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Humboldt-Univ. Berlin

Start Date

10-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1320

Description

The presenters look at a variety of sixteenth-century texts that apparently served a significant role at that time but have not yet received the attention by modern scholarship that they deserve. This way these medievalists explore a territory that still belongs more or less to their field of investigation, highlighting old and new traditions. Albrecht Classen