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• 20 nov 2020	11 déc 2020	08 jan 2021
  05 fév 2021	12 mar 2021	...

  Seminar - Middle Ages

  How to finish?

  Medieval literary seminar

  Beaucoup d’œuvres médiévales nous sont parvenues inachevées, pour ne citer que les exemples notoires du Conte du graal, du Tristan de Béroul ou du Roman de la rose de Guillaume de Lorris. Au-delà des raisons accidentelles – mort de l’auteur, lacune de la tradition manuscrite – difficilement mesurables, on questionnera la pertinence de la notion d’achèvement pour les œuvres médiévales. Comment pense-t-on, au Moyen Âge, la fin d’une œuvre ? Cette dernière doit-t-elle nécessairement aboutir à une forme close qui seule achèverait de lui donner un sens ? Est-ce l’achèvement, le fait de mener l’œuvre à chief, de lui donner par-là une forme de couronnement, qui fait l’œuvre ? La question de l’achèvement de l’œuvre soulève celle de l’achèvement du sens.On envisagera les œuvres inachevées –ou supposées telles– qui travaillent sans fin « l’impossibilité d’en finir », et la question des continuations qui les prolongent. Laisser inachevé, donc, pour pouvoir toujours recommencer. S’interrompre, s’arrêter de dire pour laisser la place au « contre-dit ». À l’inverse, comment clore ? Comment mettre un terme à l’écriture, sortir de l’œuvre ?

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• 15 mar 2020

  London

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  The Classics in the Pulpit. Ancient Literature and Preaching in the Middle Ages

  The aim of the conference is to shed new light on this both striking and irritating practice. Papers (25 min) can deal with topics such as the reasons and occasions for the use of the classics in preaching, the hermeneutic and literary strategies applied in order to adapt pagan mythology to homiletic needs, the social and educational background of preachers and their audiences, the connections of classicizing sermons with other fields of literature such as vernacular poetry, or the discourse they provoked within the clerical milieu. Applications from all relevant disciplines (e.g. history, literature, theology, philosophy) are welcome.

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• 06 fév 2020

  07 fév 2020

  Nanterre | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Guido delle Colonne and his Reception in Medieval Europe

  Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae has been a phenomenal success since its composition at the end of the 13th century. Nevertheless, academic studies remain limited and questions remain open about the author himself (judge, historian and poet?), about his sources – including the essential Trojan novel in verse by Benoît de Saint Maure –, about the construction and style of his work and about its intents in a particularly troubled period. While significant progress has been made in recent years, studies are far from being exhaustive and the case deserve to be considered anew. Historia's interest lies in particular in the translations, adaptations and summaries it generated throughout Europe until the 17^th century. This international conference aims thus to shed new lights on the original text as well as on the diversity of its appropriations, between filiation and emancipation. In this regard, the spectacular diffusion has contributed to strenghten a Trojan European literature.

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