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• 05 avr 2017

  06 avr 2017

  07 avr 2017

  Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines | Nanterre | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Troy in medieval Europe

  From one language to another, from one culture to another

  Beginning with the Chronicle of Frédégaire (8^th century), the myth of the Trojan origin of the European peoples spread all over medieval Europe. In the Old French linguistic area, in the 12^th century, Benoît de Sainte-Maure « translated » the latin prose accounts of Darès and Dictys in his verse Roman de Troie, a widely successful poem, as demonstrated by its numerous copies, and by the many prose versions and other adaptations composed throughout the Middle Ages.This conference will investigate how and why the subject of Troy became immensely popular in neighboring linguistic areas (England, Spain, Italy, Germany and all of Northern Europe) and fostered various literary undertakings. The investigation may follow two courses: a comparative one establishing and/or questioning filiations between vernacular versions, and a more global one highlighting relationships and interplay across disciplinary boundaries and literary genres.

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