Medialatinitas IX: Nostalgia in/and the Middle Ages
Charles University, Prague
Faculty of Arts, náměstí Jana Palacha 2
September 22, 2022
9:45-10:00
Welcome (Lucie Doležalová, Danuta Shanzer)
10:00-11:00
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection):From before Attila to beyond Hitler: The Waltharius and the Complications of the German(ic) Past (Keynote)
11:30-12:30 Parallel Sessions
I.A Dante’s Earthly and Heavenly Homelands
Chair: Farkas Gábor Kiss
Roberto Angelini (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture in Florence): Longing for Florence: Laurel and Love for Lost Homeland in the Last (Latin) Verse of Dante (IT)
Vasile Rus (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca): Contemplatio Dei, desiderium divinae mentis et nostalgia paradisi. La pedagogia umanistica della Ratio atque institutio studiorum Societatis Iesu (IT)
I.B The Imagined British past – Geoffrey of Monmouth
Chair: Klára Petříková
Georg Stenborg (Uppsala University): Nostalgia for the British past? On genre and mentality in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Maistre Wace
Sonia Madrid Medrano and Eduardo Valls Oyarzun (both Complutense University of Madrid): Nostalgia for the Brit(on) that never was: Arthurian Thatcherism in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981)
I.C Longing women
Chair:
Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska and Zofia Bryłka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): Longing for a Child. A Depiction of Infertility in the Old Polish Apocrypha of the New Testament
Francesca Robusto (University of Turin): Heloise or Redemption from Nostalgia (IT)
I.D Nostalgia for and Future of Medieval Latin (roundtable)
Chair: Mary Garrison
Francesco Stella (University of Siena): Medieval Latin Handbooks
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (S.I.S.M.E.L.): Medieval Latin tools and repertories
Wim Verbaal (Ghent University): Memoria futurorum: Nostalgic for the Future
14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions
II.A Different Paradises
Chair: Mariken Teeuwen
Danuta Shanzer (University of Vienna): Nostalgia and the Theology of Sentiment: Augustine’s Eden and the Pagan Imaginaire. Case Studies from the Latin Middle Ages
Cédric Giraud (University of Geneva): Heaven can wait? Eden and Heavenly Jerusalem – between Nostalgia and Desire in the central Middle Ages
Greti Dinkova-Bruun (University of Toronto): Longing for Paradise in the Poetry of Peter Riga and Alexander Neckam
II.B Alcuin’s Nostalgia
Chair:
Gernot Wieland (University of British Columbia): Nostalgia in Alcuin’s letters
Mary Garrison (University of York): Alcuin’s Nostalgia in the year of the miseria et mors regum
Anna Ritzel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Die Zelle als Sehnsuchtsort – Der nostalgische Dichter und fromme Christ in Alkuins
II.C Contemplating the Saints
Chair: Stanislav Hlaváč
Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge): Looking Back at St. Augustine of Canterbury
Patryk M. Ryczkowski (University of Innsbruck): Why Did Early Modern Epic Poetry Glorify the Medieval Saints? St. John of Nepomuk in the Nepomuceneis Persicos
Fabio Mantegazza (University of Bologna): Nostalgia and the Scoti peregrini: the case of Donatus Faesulanus’s Vita sanctae Brigidae
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
III.A Petrarch
Chair: Francesco Stella
Jean-Yves Tilliette (University of Geneva): Iamque arsisse pudet… Sur quelques vers de Pétrarque (FR)
Peter Orth (University of Cologne): Optarem vel me in tuam vel te in nostram etatem incidisse. Petrarcas Sehnsucht nach der antiken Literatur (DE)
Justin Haynes (University of California, Davis): Antagonistic Nostalgia for Antiquity: Petrarch’s Reading of Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreis
III.B Monastic Nostalgia
Chair: Cédric Giraud
Theo Lap (University of Groningen): Nostalgic Monks and Homesick Bishops: Discourses of Anti-Nostalgia in High Medieval Letter Collection
Iva Adámková (Charles University in Prague): Bernard of Clairvaux: Arguments against Cluniac Monasticism with Reference to the Tradition of the Desert Fathers
Stanislav Hlaváč (Charles University in Prague): The Desire for Reconciliation: Modern Historiography and the Parents of Francis of Assisi
Adam Poznański (Wrocław University Library): Peter the Venerable and Classical Latin. A Stylistic Analysis of “Contra Petrobrusianos”
III.C Editorial Psychology: Manuscripts and Editions
Chair: Erika Kihlman
Marina Giani (Università degli Studi di Milano and KU Leuven): Longing for the Best Copy. The Textual Restoration of Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei in the Carolingian Era
Matteo Salaroli (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture in Florence): Echoes of a Lost Manuscript: the Codex Moissiacensis and the Stemma Codicum of Notker’s Gesta Karoli
Clemens Galban (Klosterneuburg Monastery): The Statutes of Raudnitz-Klosterneuburg of 1420 and their Redaction
18:00-19:00
Lars Boje Mortensen (University of Southern Denmark): A Language Bringing an Empire: Classic Nostalgia and the Empowerment of Imperial Discourse c. 1050-1200 (keynote), followed by reception
September 23, 2022
9:30-11:00 Parallel Sessions
IV.A Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Chair: Danuta Shanzer
Tino Licht (Heidelberg University): Hrotsvit von Gandersheim in Winchester. Spuren englischer Heimatnostalgie um die erste Jahrtausendwende (DE)
Katja Weidner (University of Vienna): Virginity Lost: Hrotsvitha’s Mary and the Point of No Return
IV.B The Bible Rewritten
Chair: Greti Dinkova-Bruun
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (University of Zurich): Looking Back to the Second Temple: Petrus Alfonsi on the Jewish Past
Wojciech Stelmach (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): Linguistic Expressions of Nostalgia for Paradise Lost in Old Polish Apocrypha about Adam and Eve
Louis Zweig (Harvard University): The Biblical Structure of the Waltharius
IV.C The Linguistics of Regret
Chair: Pavel Nývlt
Bruno Bon (French National Centre for Scientific Research): La ‘nostalgie’ en latin médiéval : une étude lexicale comme les autres (FR)
Krzysztof W. Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences): Beyond Sin. Linguistic Representation of Regret in Medieval Latin Texts
Anna Ledzińska (Polish Academy of Sciences): Longing for Perfection. Virtus in Polish Medieval Latin
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions
V.A Transmission of Learning: Looking Back with Mixed Feelings
Chair: Mary Garrison
Erika Kihlman (Stockholm University): Late-Medieval Teaching Material: Conservatism, Nostalgia, Antiquarianism?
Luisa Fizzarotti (University of Udine): Books and Authors from the Past Mourning the Death of Ambrose
Conan Doyle (Charles University): Ubi sunt medici qui ante nos fuerunt? Nostalgia for the Imperial Past in Agnellus of Ravenna, the Epistola peri heresion, and early medieval Latin medical corpus
V.B The Classics remembered in Humanism
Chair: Farkas Gábor Kiss
Kurt Smolak (University of Vienna): In chaos cuncta reverti…[Bohuslaus Hassensteinius a Lobkowitz]: ‘Florebat olim studium [CB 6]’ (LAT)
Marta Ramos-Grané (University of Extremadura): Manipulating Memory, a Mistake in Romberch’s Recalling
Tristan Spillmann (University of Cologne): Cicero versus Bartolo or Antiquity versus the Middle Ages. The Dualisms of Past and Present in Lorenzo Valla’s Epistola contra Bartolum
Rodney J. Lokaj (Kore University of Enna): Nostalgic Philology: Bembo’s ‘Ad Herculem Strotium’
V.C Longing and Bereavement in Historiography
Chair: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
Hanna Rajfura (University of Warsaw): The Past as Source of Knowledge, Longing, and Legitimacy: The Case of the Late Medieval Polish Historian Jan Długosz
Wojciech Mrozowicz (University of Wrocław): Egressi de sacro Lubensis cenobii paradyso. Über das Gefühl der Sehnsucht im Leben der Mönche (anhand der schlesischen mittelalterlichen Klostergeschichtsschreibung) (DE)
Jesús Rodríguez Viejo (Goethe University Frankfurt): A Bereaved Daughter: Dynastic Memory and Performance in the Royal Pantheon of León, Spain
14:00-15:00 Parallel Sessions
VI.A Architrenius
Chair: Kurt Smolak
Lorenzo Carlucci (Sapienza University of Rome) and Laura Marino (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio): The Architrenius as an Epic of Nostalgia
Floriane Goy (University of Geneva): « Omne bonum ueterum labiis distillat » : L’exemple de l’Antiquité dans l’Architrenius de Jean de Hanville (FR)
VI.B Reception of the Classics in Poetry
Chair: Marek Kretschmer
Hannelore Segers (Harvard University): The Late Antique Cento and Virgil’s Golden Age
Susanna Fischer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Cities and Ruins – Troy, Rome, and the Memory of Past Glory in Medieval Latin Poetry
VI.C Walahfrid in Exile
Chair: Mariken Teeuwen
Walter Berschin (Heidelberg University): Walahfrid Strabo’s “Tagebuch” a. 815 bis a. 825 (DE)
David A. Traill (University of California, Davis): Nostalgia in Gottschalk and Walahfrid
15:30-16:30 Parallel Sessions
VII.A Visigothic Longings
Chair: Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann
Rodríguez Joel Varela (Complutense University of Madrid): La Visio Taionis y la nostalgia por el pasado visigodo
Sergey Vorontsov (Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow): The Nostalgic Self and the Literary Culture of Seventh-Century Visigothic Spain
VII.B Building an Ideal Monastic Community
Chair: Wim Verbaal
Jan Ctibor (Charles University in Prague): (Monastic) Paradise Lost and Regained. The Image of Ur-Monasticism in Idung of Prüfening‛s Dialogus
Caecilia-Désirée Hein (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Discourse and Community. The Writings of Bernhard of Waging in the Context of Late Medieval Monastic Reform
VII.C Miraculous Healing
Chair: Conan Doyle
Łukasz Halida (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Sanatio corporis – sanatio animae. Le guarigioni miracolose e la sua dinamica psicologica e spirituale nei testi medievali sui santi polacchi (IT)
Agnieszka Maciąg-Fiedler (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Miracles were Done Once – The Medicine of Nicholas of Poland
17:00-18:00
Barbara Newman (Northwestern University in Evanston): Using Nostalgia to Justify the New: The Place of Precedents in Hagiography (keynote)
Followed by a concert of Schola Gregoriana
September 24, 2022
9:30-11:00 Parallel Sessions
VIII.A Constructing an aetas aurea at a Court
Chair: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
Antoni A. Biosca i Bas (University of Alicante): Los buenos tiempos del buen rey Jaime. Literatura latina en recuerdo de Jaime I (ES)
Valeria Mattaloni (University of Udine): Weeping From the Exile: Ermoldus Nigellus and the Nostalgia for the Court
János Rédey-Keresztény (Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest): The Golden Age of Attila the Hun at the Court of Matthias Corvinus
VIII.B Expressing Emotions
Chair: Krzysztof W. Nowak
Daniela E. Mairhofer (Princeton University): The Dynamics of Nostalgia in the Thirteenth Century
Alfonso García Leal (University of Oviedo): Emociones en la epigrafía medieval hispana (ES)
Zdzisław Koczarski (Polish Academy of Sciences): Language of Desire for Change: Wish Particle ‘utinam’ in Jan Długosz’ Annales
VIII.C (Glossed) manuscripts
Chair: Erika Kihlman
Evina Steinová (Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences): The Oldest Annotations to the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville: How to Analyze Them, How to Edit Them?
Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh): Theognis Latinus: Henricus Aristippus and the Greek Past
Christina Jackel (University of Vienna) and Jiří Černý (Regional Museum in Olomouc): Tassilo to go. Das Kremsmünsterer Beutelbuch CC 391
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions
IX.A Nostalgia in Late Medieval Politics
Chair: Iva Adámková
Thomas Haye (University of Göttingen): Die Desolatio regni Francie des Robert Blondel (gest. nach 1460). – Poetische Nostalgie im Dienste nationaler Politik (DE)
Pavel Nývlt (Czech Academy of Sciences): Nostalgias in Hussite Bohemia
Wilken Engelbrecht (Palacký University Olomouc): Nostalgie bestätigt: das kaiserliche Privilegium der friesischen Freiheit vom Jahre 1417 (DE)
IX.B Texts and Contexts for Nostalgia
Chair: Jeff Rider
Marek Kretschmer (Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris): Les voix du passé – les sources latines du Compendium historial d’Henri Romain
Tristan Major (Qatar University): Legitur spermologus: Frithegod and the Use of Greek in the Breuiloquium Vitae Sancti Wilfredi
Elena Vishnevskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences): Nostalgia in Medieval Latin Sequences: From Bitterness to Joy
IX.C Later Medieval Poetry and Poetics
Chair: Francesco Stella
Matouš Jaluška (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Reshaping the Golden Age in Old Czech Chivalric Fiction
Farkas Gábor Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest): Imitation and Nostalgia: the Poetria nova and its Poetic Influence in the Late Middle Ages
Martin Šorm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague): Appeals doomed to futility – poetics of the Czech verse chronicle
IX.D Digital Turn in Manuscript Studies (roundtable)
Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands): The Transformation of Manuscript Research in the Digital Age
Martin Roček (Charles University): Annotations, Editions and Semantic Analysis
Ondřej Fúsik (Charles University): Linguistic Data
Karel Pacovský (Charles University): The Lipnice Bible 1421-2021
14:00-15:00 Parallel Sessions
X.A Late Medieval Theology
Chair: Wojciech Mrozowicz
Petra Mutlová (Masaryk University in Brno): Discens factus est sciens: Recommendation Speeches in Late Medieval Bohemia
Luciano Micali (Charles University in Prague): The Reference to Tradition and to Good Models in the Theological Speculation of Jean Gerson
X.B Prophecy and Revelation
Chair: Adam Poznański
Gabriele Passabì (University of Cambridge): Back to the Future: Prophecy, Temporality, and Nostalgia in Twelfth-Century Universal Chronicles
Pavlína Cermanová (Czech Academy of Sciences): Return to Innocence: Apocalyptic Mutation in Hussite Radicalism
X.C Documentary Nostalgia
Chair: Marta Ramos Grané
Anahí Álvarez Aguado (University of Barcelona): Linguistic Nostalgia in Medieval Latin Documents from Catalonia
Adrián Arés Legaspi (University of Zaragoza): When Nostalgia Became Tradition: The Use of old Medieval Documentary Features in the Diplomata of the Kingdom of Castile in the Fifteenth Century
15:30-16:30 Parallel Sessions
XI.A Medievalism – Theory
Chair: Martin Šorm
Rasmus Vangshardt (University of Southern Denmark): Latin Medievalisms and the Ecstasies of Time in Early Modern Drama
Krešimir Vuković (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Medieval and Classical Sources of Nostalgia in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University in Middletown): Semper Fi: How Can I Feel Nostalgic for the Middle Ages?
XI.B Nostalgia for the Primitive Church
Chair: Luciano Micali
Roberto Gamberini (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio): In Search of the Lost Biblical Commentaries by Anselm of Baggio: Nostalgia for the Primitive Church in the Midst of the Investiture Controversy
Lucie Mazalová (Masaryk University in Brno): A Reformation Preacher between Nostalgia for the Ideal Primitive Church and Personal Desire to Return to the Lord
XI.C Repressing Nostalgia
Chair: Pavlína Cermanová
Lucia Castaldi (University of Udine): Repressed Nostalgia: The Irish World and the Relationship with its Own Origins
Fernández Diego Belmonte (University of Seville): To Prohibit Nostalgia. Erasing Islam from a Mosque through Writing: The Libro Verde (Green book) of the Córdoba Cathedral (Fourteenth century)
17:00-18:00 Wrap-Up Session (Plenary)
September 25, 2022
10:00-14:00
Evaluation meeting (only for members of the Medieval Latin Committee)
The event was supported by the European Regional Development Fund project “Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World” (reg. no.: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734).
Further information: Lucie Doležalová lucie.dolezalova@ff.cuni.cz, phone: +420-605-758079