very preliminary – subject to change
Day 1
from 9:00 Registration
9:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00
| Jan Ziolkowski: | From before Attila to beyond Hitler: The Waltharius and the Complications of the German(ic) Past (Keynote) |
11:30-12:30
I.A Romanticism and Yearning
| Walter Berschin: | Walahfrid Strabo’s “Tagebuch” a. 815 bis a. 825 (DE) |
| Andreas Hjort Møller: | The Latin Viking: The Longing for Saxo’s Nordic Songs in 18th-century Danish Early Romanticism |
I.B Dante’s Earthly and Heavenly Homelands
| Roberto Angelini: | Longing for Florence: Laurel and Love for Lost Homeland in the Last (Latin) Verse of Dante (IT) |
| Rus Vasile: | Contemplatio Dei, desiderium divinae mentis et nostalgia paradisi. La pedagogia umanistica della Ratio atque institutio studiorum Societatis Iesu (IT) |
I.C The Imagined British past – Geoffrey of Monmouth
| Georg Stenborg: | Nostalgia for the British past? On genre and mentality in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Maistre Wace |
| Sonia Madrid Medrano: | Nostalgia for the Brit(on) that never was: Arthurian Thatcherism in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) |
14:00-15:30
II.A Three Different Paradises
| Cédric Giraud: | Heaven can wait? Eden and Heavenly Jerusalem – between Nostalgia and Desire in the central Middle Ages |
| Danuta Shanzer: | Nostalgia and the Theology of Sentiment: Augustine’s Eden and the Pagan Imaginaire. Case Studies from the Latin Middle Ages |
| Maria Nenarokova: | The Heavenly Jerusalem in Medieval Latin Hymnography |
II.B Homesickness in Elegy and Letters
| Gernot Wieland: | Nostalgia in Alcuin’s letters |
| Anna Ritzel: | Die Zelle als Sehnsuchtsort – Der nostalgische Dichter und fromme Christ in Alkuins ‚O mea cella‘ (DE) |
| Theo Lap: | Nostalgic Monks and Homesick Bishops: Discourses of Anti-Nostalgia in High Medieval Letter Collections |
II.C Medievalism – Theory
| Rasmus Vangshardt: | Latin Medievalisms and the Ecstasies of Time in Early Modern Drama |
| Martin Šorm | People, Elites and Nostalgia – Medievalism in Contemporary Czech Populism |
| Jeff Rider: | Semper Fi: How Can I feel Nostalgic for the Middle Ages? |
16:00-17:30
III.A Looking back to Rome, Troy, and Ruins
| Sinéad O’Sullivan: | Nostalgia for Ancient Rome in the Carolingian Age |
| Susanna Fischer: | Cities and Ruins – Troy, Rome and the Memory of Past Glory in Medieval Latin Poetry |
| Gabriele Cocco: | The sic transit gloria mundi theme: the Latin Middle Ages and the Old English The Ruin |
III.B Petrarch
| Jean-Yves Tilliette: | Iamque arsisse pudet… Sur quelques vers de Pétrarque (FR) |
| Peter Orth: | Optarem vel me in tuam vel te in nostram etatem incidisse. Petrarcas Sehnsucht nach der antiken Literatur (DE) |
| Justin Haynes: | Antagonistic Nostalgia for Antiquity: Petrarch’s Reading of Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreis |
III.C Monastic Nostalgia
| Francesco Mosetti Casaretto: | La nostalgia monastica mediolatina (IT) |
| Iva Adámková: | Bernard of Clairvaux: Arguments against Cluniac Monasticism with Reference to the Tradition of the Desert Fathers |
| Jan Ctibor: | (Monastic) Paradise Lost and Regained. The Image of Ur-Monasticism in Idung of Prüfening‛s Dialogus. |
18:00-19:00
Followed by reception
Day 2
9:30-11:00
IV.A Constructing an aetas aurea at a Court
| Lars Boje Mortensen: | A Language Bringing an Empire: Classic Nostalgia and the Empowerment of Imperial Discourse c. 1050-1200 (keynote) |
| János Rédey-Keresztény: | The Golden Age of Attila the Hun at the Court of Matthias Corvinus |
| Václav Žůrek: | Nostalgia for a Golden Age under Charles IV in 15th Century Bohemia |
| Antoni A. Biosca i Bas: | Los buenos tiempos del buen rey Jaime. Literatura latina en recuerdo de Jaime I (ES) |
IV.B Later Medieval Poetry and Poetics
| Matouš Jaluška: | Reshaping the Golden Age in Old Czech Chivalric Fiction |
| Dominika Kovács: | Andreas Capellanus and Enea Silvio Piccolomini: Influence of a Medieval Treatise |
| Farkas Gábor Kiss: | Imitation and nostalgia: the Poetria nova and its poetic influence in the late Middle Ages |
IV.C Seen through a Telescope: Classical Latin in the Middle Ages
| Anahí Álvarez: | Linguistic Nostalgia in Medieval Latin Documents from Catalonia |
| Florencia Cuadra García: | De orthographia de Parisio de Altedo, un completo tratado de ortografía latina de la Baja Edad Media (ES) |
| Adam Poznanski: | Peter the Venerable and Classical Latin. A Stylistic Analysis of “Contra Petrobrusianos” |
11:30-13:00
V.A Past and Present in Charters
| Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena: | La oposición pasado/presente como lugar común en los proemios de la documentación altomedieval (ES) | |
| Juan Francisco Mesa Sanz: | Un jardín frente al mar: Imaginario historiográfico y realidad documental en la conquista del Reino de Valencia (ES) | |
| Adrián Ares Legaspi: | When Nostalgia Became Tradition: The use of old Medieval Documentary Features in the Diplomata of the Kingdom of Castile in the 15th Century | |
V.B The Classics remembered in Humanism
| Marta Ramos-Grané: | Manipulating memory, a mistake in Romberch’s recalling | |
| Tristan Spillmann: | Cicero versus Bartolo or Antiquity versus the Middle Ages. The Dualisms of Past and Present in Lorenzo Valla’s Epistola contra Bartolum | |
| Rodney Lokaj: | Nostalgic Philology: Bembo’s ‘Ad Herculem Strotium’ | |
V.C Longing and Bereavement inHistoriography
| Hanna Rajfura: | The Past as Source of Knowledge, Longing, and Legitimacy: the Case of the Late Medieval Polish Historian Jan Długosz |
| Wojciech Mrozowicz: | Egressi de sacro Lubensis cenobii paradyso. Über das Gefühl der Sehnsucht im Leben der Mönche (anhand der schlesischen mittelalterlichen Klostergeschichtsschreibung) (DE) |
| Jesús Rodríguez Viejo: | A Bereaved Daughter: Dynastic Memory and Performance in the Royal Pantheon of León, Spain |
14:00-15:00
VI.A Architrenius
| Lorenzo Carlucci and Laura Marino: | The Architrenius as an Epic of Nostalgia |
| Floriane Goy: | « Omne bonum ueterum labiis distillat » : L’exemple de l’Antiquité dans l’Architrenius de Jean de Hanville (FR) |
VI.B Reception of the Classics: Golden Oldies or Not?
| Hannelore Segers: | The Late Antique Cento and Virgil’s Golden Age |
| Alexander Andrée: | Conrad of Hirsau, the Latin Classics, and not being nostalgic in the Twelfth Century |
VI.C Transmission of Learning: Looking Back with Mixed Feelings
| Julian Yolles: | Between Nostalgia and Innovation: Classical Learning in the Latin East |
| Erika Kihlman: | Late-Medieval Teaching Material: Conservatism, Nostalgia, Antiquarianism? |
15:30-16:30
VII.A Carolingian Longings?
| Tino Licht: | Sehnsucht nach barbarischer Größe? Gotennostalgie in der lateinischen Literatur und Überlieferung der Karolingerzeit (DE) |
| David A. Traill | Nostalgia in Gottschalk and Walahfrid |
VII.B The Bible Rewritten
| Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann: | Looking back to the Second Temple: Petrus Alfonsi on the Jewish Past | |
| Wojciech Stelmach: | Linguistic Expressions of Nostalgia for Paradise Lost in Old-Polish Apocrypha about Adam and Eve | |
VII.C Prophecy and Revelation
| Gabriele Passabi: | Back to the Future: Prophecy, Temporality, and Nostalgia in Twelfth-Century Universal Chronicles |
| Pavlína Cermanová | Return to Innocence: Apocalyptic Mutation in Hussite Radicalism |
VII. D Miraculous Healing
| Lukasz Halida: | Sanatio corporis – sanatio animae. Le guarigioni miracolose e la sua dinamica psicologica e spirituale nei testi medievali sui santi polacchi (IT) |
| Agnieszka Maciąg-Fiedler: | Miracles were done once – the Medicine of Nicholas of Poland |
17:00-18:00 KEYNOTE TBA
Followed by concert – Schola Gregoriana
Day 3
9:30-11:00
VIII.A Longing women
| Katja Weidner: | Virginity Lost: Hrotsvitha’s Mary and the Point of No Return |
| Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska: | Longing for a Child – a Depiction of Infertility in the Old Polish Apocrypha of the New Testament |
| Francesca Robusto: | Heloise or Redemption from Nostalgia (IT) |
VIII.B The Linguistics of Regret
| Bruno Bon: | La ‘nostalgie’ en latin médiéval : une étude lexicale comme les autres (FR) |
| Krzysztof Nowak: | Beyond Sin. Linguistic representation of the Regret in medieval Latin Texts |
| Anna Ledzińska: | Longing for perfection. Virtus in Polish Medieval Latin |
VIII.C Editorial Psychology: Manuscripts and Editions
| Giani, Marina | Longing for the Best Copy. The Textual Restoration of Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei in the Carolingian Era |
| Salaroli, Matteo | Echoes of a lLost Manuscript: the Codex Moissiacensis and the Stemma Codicum of Notker’s Gesta Karoli |
| Galban, Clemens | The Statutes of Raudnitz-Klosterneuburg of 1420 and their Redaction |
11:30-13:00
IX.A Nostalgia in Late Medieval Politics
| Haye, Thomas | Die Desolatio regni Francie des Robert Blondel (gest. nach 1460). – Poetische Nostalgie im Dienste nationaler Politik (DE) |
| Nývlt, Pavel | Nostalgias in Hussite Bohemia |
| Engelbrecht, Wilken | Nostalgie bestätigt: das kaiserliche Privilegium der friesischen Freiheit vom Jahre 1417 (DE) |
IX.B Text Analysis
| Hein, Caecilia Désirée | Discourse and Community. The Writings of Bernhard of Waging in the context of Late Medieval Monastic Reform | |
| Louis Zweig | The Biblical Structure of the Waltharius | |
| Tristan Major | Legitur spermologus: Frithegod and the Use of Greek in the Breuiloquium Vitae Sancti Wilfredi | |
IX.C Contemplating the Saints
| Rosalind Love | Looking back at St Augustine of Canterbury |
| Patryk Ryczkowski | Why Did Early Modern Epic Poetry Glorify the Medieval Saints? St. John of Nepomuk in the Nepomuceneis Persicos |
| Babette Hellemans | Viewing the Saints: Film-Theory and Religious Imagination in the Liturgy of the Paraclete (12th century) |
14:00-15:30
X.A Late Medieval Theology and its Imagined Primitive Church
| Petra Mutlová | Discens factus est sciens: Recommendation Speeches in Late Medieval Bohemia |
| Lucie Mazalová | A Reformation Preacher between Nostalgia for the Ideal Primitive Church and Personal Desire to Return to the Lord |
| Micali, Luciano | The Reference to Tradition and to Good Models in the Theological Speculation of Jean Gerson |
X.B Expressing Emotions
| Daniela E.Mairhofer | The Dynamics of Nostalgia in the 13th Century |
| Michał Rzepiela: | Description of Emotions in Medieval Historiography – The Case of the Annales Regni Poloniae of Jan Długosz |
| Alfonso García Leal: | Emociones en la epigrafía medieval hispana (ES) |
X.C (Glossed) manuscripts
| Evina Steinová: | The Oldest Annotations to the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville: How to Analyze Them, How to Edit Them? | |
| Stover, Justin | Theognis Latinus: Henricus Aristippus and the Greek Past | |
| Christina Jackel and Jiří Černý | Tassilo to go. Das Kremsmünsterer Beutelbuch CC 391 | |
16:00-17:00 Wrap up session