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• 06 oct 2016

  07 oct 2016

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - History

  Inventing medieval literature (16th-17th century)

  Le colloque se propose d'étudier l'intérêt de l'érudition européenne des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles pour les textes rassemblés depuis le XIX^e siècle sous la dénomination « littérature médiévale ». Il interroge les catégories retenues par les antiquaires pour classifier ces textes, ainsi que les motivations ayant conduit à leur édition et à leur étude. Il rassemble des spécialistes des littératures française, italienne et scandinave et islandaise.

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• 30 jan 2016

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Europe

  Inventing medieval literature (16th-17th century)

  This conference aims to study the categories and periodizations used by 16^th and 17^th century antiquarians to classify the texts gathered today under the name "medieval literature". We examine the motivations behind antiquarian interest in texts which were difficult to read and understand, carried moral and religious values perceived as "alien", and were sometimes considered useless if not harmful to read, but were nevertheless recognized as reliable sources on past habits. Special attention will be given to discourses of continuity (origins of a modern language) or rupture (medieval "barbarity" or "popery") in which these texts were used as supports.

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