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Pubblicato: 25 gennaio 2025

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Articoli di riviste sul tema "Medieval Norman worlds"

Rady, Martyn. "Ardelean, Florin; Nicholson, Christopher and Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes (eds) Between Worlds: The Age of the Jagiellonians Pop, Ioan-Aurel 'De manibus Vallachorum schismaticorum ' Romanians and Power in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary (The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries) Pop, Ioan-Aurel Norman Housley (review)". Slavonic and East European Review 93, n. 4 (ottobre 2015): 756–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/see.2015.0042.

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Breeze, Andrew. "The Arthurian World, ed. Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, and Renée Ward. London: Routledge, 2022, xxii, 580 pp." Mediaevistik 35, n. 1 (1 gennaio 2022): 317–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2022.01.27.

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Abstract In thirty-four chapters Arthur is dressed and served, with half the courses medieval, half post-medieval. They appear in four parts: Arthur in Britain; in Europe outside Britain; in material aspects (manuscripts, printed books, art); and “transversally” in (for example) cinema or digital games. In the first part are: Peter Field on Arthur’s origins; Helen Fulton on Welsh tradition and the “Invention” (sic) of Arthur’s Britain; Audrey Martin and David Mason on Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Caxton; Victoria Flood on Arthur and medieval prophecy; Kenneth Hodges on him in Malory and Spenser; Andrew Lynch on post-medieval texts (up to Kazuo Ishiguro); Andrew Hadfield on Spenser; Claudia Olk on parallels with The Tempest; Renée Ward on a forgotten Victorian novel; Virginia Blanton on plays from 1873 onwards.

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Hollister, C. Warren. "Courtly Culture and Courtly Style in the Anglo-Norman World". Albion 20, n. 1 (1988): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4049795.

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Two years ago, at an NACBS council meeting at the now defunct Shamrock Hotel in Houston, one of our officers—not me, I hasten to say—suggested that NACBS Presidents really ought to begin earning their keep by delivering presidential addresses. I objected that NACBS Presidents receive no keep, but I was ruled out of order. I therefore stand before you this evening as the first person ever to deliver an NACBS presidential address. This, I can assure you, is a daunting challenge. One provision of the council resolution was that the address should be published as a scholarly essay in Albion, and with Albion's international reputation, this means that what I say here tonight will be read very critically—perhaps even scoffed at—by historians of medieval Britain throughout the world. I dare not be frivolous. On the other hand, we have all just enjoyed a splendid banquet. We have indulged in good wine. Some might now be in the mood for an hour's technical discussion of Anglo-Norman prosopography, but in actuality, I suspect that very, very few of you are in such a mood.So the great challenge of the presidential address is to be amusing and significant at one and the same time—and I'm not at all certain that I am capable of squaring that circle. I was puzzling over the problem almost exactly one year ago, at our NACBS Annual Meeting last October, at the elegant and, indeed, unsinkable Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.

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Alexander, James W. "A Historiographical Survey: Norman and Plantagenet Kings since World War II". Journal of British Studies 24, n. 1 (gennaio 1985): 94–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385826.

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If the sacred back was not always safe from family and associates in the Anglo-Saxon period, still less was it proffered in the Norman and Angevin periods. William I endured the rebellion of one son, William II an accidental death while hunting; Henry I suppressed a baronial rebellion in favor of his feckless brother Robert Curthose; Stephen's reign was characterized by lawlessness and rebellion on behalf of Empress Matilda. Henry II found his whole family actively at war against him, Richard I met his death in a political quarrel in Aquitaine, John was constrained by a rebellion of many barons to issue Magna Carta, Henry III faced constant baronial opposition to his policies, Edward I was compelled to face magnate disquiet from 1297 to 1300, Edward II was deposed (and betrayed by his wife). Edward III alone of the kings discussed in this portion of my article reigned withal quietly (after 1341) and successfully (in terms of familial and baronial opposition, at least until 1376). This is not a happy picture, but it is one that reminds us that family relations were vital to successful kingship and that a king must, if successful, be a canny politician. Unlike Rosenthal, I have chosen to limit my discussion of royal biography for the period 1066–1377 to pointing out the sources that have appeared in print since 1945 and to book-length royal biographies; no longer is it true (in the words of Sidney Painter written in 1949 that prefaced his study of The Reign of King John) that, “when I started to write this volume, there was no adequate account of the reign of a medieval English king.

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Williams, Graham Trevor. "Performative speech act verbs and sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English letters". Multilingua 39, n. 1 (28 gennaio 2020): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2019-0011.

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AbstractThis paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), at a point when Middle English was rapidly replacing Anglo-Norman as the vernacular of epistolarity in England. Employing historical dictionaries and corpora, the study 1) locates the range of words for ‘sincerity’ from a time when the modern lexeme had yet to be borrowed in either vernacular, and 2) demonstrates that while it is clear that Middle English epistolarity was greatly influenced by Anglo-Norman, quantitative and qualitative analyses suggest that sincerity markers were much less commonplace in Middle English performatives, which further suggests ways in which the communicative ideal and practice of sincerity were reanalyzed from one language to the next.

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Rozin, Vadim Markovich. "Features of the poetics of the medieval collection of prose "Roman Deeds" (studying a new book by Svetlana Neretina "No word is better than another". Philosophy and Literature")". Культура и искусство, n. 8 (agosto 2022): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0625.2022.8.38564.

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The article offers an analysis of the poetics of the collection of prose "Roman Deeds", which the author considers as an addition to the study of S.S. Neretina. First, the methodology of studying medieval texts, which is discussed in the "Preface" to the book, is briefly characterized, and two stories from the collection are given as cases. Neretina argues that the "Roman Acts" expresses the world of medieval culture and within it the reality of statements relating to philosophy and what we could call medieval art. The mechanism of creating short stories from the "Roman Acts" is analyzed, including, firstly, a statement beginning with a sound, opening the way to meaning and things, secondly, the disclosure of the hidden as a creation of an independent reality (science, art, etc.), thirdly, the use of tropes in the course of constructing a multi-valued medieval reality. The author shows that the picture drawn by Neretina well explains the ambiguity of reality, which is important for medieval thinking, however, the explanation of the features of the content of the stories of the "Roman Deeds" is not understood by her on the basis of the picture drawn in the "Preface"; they are interpreted from the point of view of the structure of medieval culture. Then the author discusses the concepts of reality and ambiguity that aroused his interest. At the same time, he already uses his own ideas obtained in the analysis of art. The author explains the differences in the interpretation of the "Roman Acts" by the discrepancy of discourses and views of researchers, which, in his opinion, is completely normal and serves for the benefit of thinking.

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Merrilees, Brian. "Words in Favour of Women". Florilegium 18, n. 1 (gennaio 2001): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.18.003.

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Thirty years ago I published in Medium Aevum a short article entitled "Words against Women." It was a brief edition and commentary on some anti-feminist lines found in the manuscript Vatican Reg. lat. 1659. The lines were used to fill up an empty column and seem to have been linked to a longer passage in the Vatican copy of a moralising debate poem, the Petit Plet by the Anglo-Norman poet Chardri. The Petit Plet lines are marked in this manuscript by drawings of hands with the index finger pointing to particular couplets that deal with the unflattering characteristics of women. If there are many medieval texts that clearly see women in an unfavourable light, there are, however, a few that speak out in praise of women; in this paper I present some aspects of one of those, an unpublished poem in defence of women that Professor Francoise Vielliard of the Ecole nationale des Chartes and I are in the process of editing. Though this paper may be intended primarily to remind us of that rather small literary current, it also underlines the value of hunting through manuscripts ostensibly devoted to one subject but where marginalia and fill-in material can reveal a few unknown gems which often pass unrecorded—or at least passed over in the standard catalogues.

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Pauthier Moghaddassi, Fanny. "Clashes or Frictions ? Approaches to Linguistic Contact in Medieval Britain". Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 49, n. 1 (2016): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2016.1523.

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This paper investigates the implications of word-choices in academic accounts of contacts between different languages and dialects in British medieval history. The history of English can be studied as the result of series of military clashes and invasions (from early Germanic migrations, through Viking raids to the Norman Conquest), but it can also be read as the outcome of long periods of linguistic frictions, in other words of more or less peaceful coexistence between different linguistic groups, mutually influencing each other. Current research, in opposition to nineteenth-century nationalistic approaches, insists on this idea of linguistic frictions, rejecting analyses of British history based on the notion of clashes between radically distinct ethnic and linguistic groups. But to some extent, this perspective paradoxically fuels new versions of the national myth.

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Calkin, Siobhain Bly. "The Anxieties of Encounter and Exchange: Saracens and Christian Heroism in Sir Beves of Hamtoun". Florilegium 21, n. 1 (gennaio 2004): 135–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.21.011.

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As Edward Said, Norman Daniel, and Dorothee Metlitzki have pointed out, the purportedly Muslim figures who appear in medieval western literature usually bear little or no resemblance to historical Muslims of the period. Said states, "we need not look for correspondence between the language used to depict the Orient and the Orient itself, not so much because the language is inaccurate but because it is not even trying to be accurate" (71). Similarly, Daniel and Metlitzki identify repeated stereotypical misrepresentations of Islam in medieval literary texts, such as the depiction of Islam as a polytheistic religion or the depiction of alcohol-drinking Muslims (Daniel 3-4, 49-51, 72-73, 81, 133-54; Metlitzki 209-10). It is certainly true that there is little or no mimetic relationship between literary Saracens and historical Muslims, but it should be noted that literary Saracens, despite their inaccuracies, did connote for the West an extremely powerful, technologically advanced Muslim civilization, which both impressed medieval Christians with its scientific knowledge and immense wealth, and menaced them militarily with its many victories over crusaders and its capacity for territorial expansion. Thus, while the Saracens of western literature may not offer us a historically accurate vision of medieval Islam, they can occasionally offer us some insight into the anxieties historical Islam posed for the West. This essay examines moments in the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Beves of Hamtoun when the text’s depiction of one knight’s assimilation into a Saracen world communicates historical anxieties about how life in a Saracen enclave might compromise the Christian heroism of an English knight. The essay argues that Beves of Hamtoun both conveys a fear of Christian assimilation into a non-Christian world, and defines a model of heroic action to counteract such assimilation and re-establish the borders between Christianity and Saracenness. However, the text also indicates the ways in which heroic efforts to reconstruct such borders might ultimately fail.

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Amon, Isaac. "The Timeless Quest for Truth in a World of Doubt: Re-Examining Modes of Proof in the Medieval Era". Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza 11 (30 dicembre 2020): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ppuam.2020.11.08.

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This article presents a brief overview of historical methods of legal proof prior to and soon after the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066. Through an examination of the rituals of compurgation and the ordeal, which were techniques designed to discover truth prior to the establishment of the inquisition in medieval Europe and the common law jury trial in England, the human quest for intellectual conviction has been indelibly with us since the days of antiquity. And, whichever method to ascertain truth is ultimately utilized – compurgation or ordeal, inquisition or cross-examination, trial by judge or by jury – the law’s enduring search for certainty amidst a world of doubt owes much to the history and times of William the Conqueror.

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Tesi sul tema "Medieval Norman worlds"

Michel, Bastien. ""L'encre et le pain " : les vassaux de l'évêché de Bayeux (ΧΙe-ΧΙΙΙe siècle)". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Normandie, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024NORMC018.

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Au Moyen Âge central, les évêques de Bayeux et leurs chanoines disposent d’une importante suite de guerriers. La présente thèse étudie ces vassaux entrés dans la dépendance honorable de l’évêché entre les années 1030 et 1290. En s’appuyant sur l’édition multimodale (papier et numérique) de six listes féodales produites à Bayeux (voir volume 2), une prosopographie des vassaux de l’évêché a été établie, regroupant 408 individus (voir volume 3). Pour chacun d’eux, une notice a été encodée dans un environnement numérique dédié développé au cours de cette recherche, E-personæ, en collaboration avec Fabien Paquet et les ingénieurs du pôle Document Numérique de la MRSH de Caen. Grâce à ces données, un premier volet de l’étude se concentre sur les pratiques féodales de l’écrit dans le diocèse médiéval de Bayeux et sur les relations – souvent complexes – entre ces vassaux et leur seigneur. Le second volet analyse les réseaux formés par ces vassaux autour du siège épiscopal de Bayeux, en se focalisant sur des moments clés de l’histoire du Bessin, des mondes normands médiévaux et du royaume de France. L’accent a été mis sur les familles de la « petite » et de la « moyenne » aristocratie, afin de mieux comprendre ce groupe peu étudié jusqu’alors, notamment en ce qui concerne leurs mobilités géographiques
During the central Middle Ages, the bishops of Bayeux and their canons had a significant retinue of warriors. This thesis examines these vassals who entered into the honorable dependency of the bishopric between the years 1030 and 1290. Relying on the multimodal edition (both print and digital) of six feudal lists produced in Bayeux (see volume 2), a prosopography of the bishopric’s vassals has been established, comprising 408 individuals (see volume 3). For each of them, a file has been encoded in a dedicated digital environment developed during this research, E-personæ, in collaboration with Fabien Paquet and the engineers of the pôle Document Numérique at the MRSH of Caen. Utilizing this data, the first part of the study focuses on the feudal practices of writing within the medieval diocese of Bayeux and the often complex relationships between these vassals and their lord. The second part analyzes the networks formed by these vassals around the episcopal seat of Bayeux, concentrating on key moments in the history of Bessin, the medieval Norman worlds, and the kingdom of France. Emphasis has been placed on families from the "lower" and "middle" aristocracy in order to better understand this under-studied group, particularly concerning their geographical mobility

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Libri sul tema "Medieval Norman worlds"

Bates, David. People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds. London: University of London Press, 2018.

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Richard, Neill, a cura di. The Norman impact on the medieval world. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Hollister, C. Warren. Monarchy, magnates, and institutions in the Anglo-Norman world. London: Hambledon Press, 1986.

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Christopher, Harper-Bill, e Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C., a cura di. A companion to the Anglo-Norman world. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2003.

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Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts e Christopher Harper-Bill. A companion to the Anglo-Norman world. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2003.

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David, Scott. Time reckoning in the Medieval World: A study of Anglo-Saxon and early Norman sundials. London: British Sundial Society, 2010.

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Gravett, Christopher. The Normans. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2007.

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1944-, Nicolle David, a cura di. The Normans. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2007.

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Antonietta, Spadaro Maria, Spadaro Maria Antonietta e Troisi Sergio author, a cura di. Itinerario arabo-normanno: Il patrimonio dell'UNESCO a Palermo, Monreale e Cefalù. Palermo: Kalós edizioni, 2018.

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Library, Bodleian, e Anglo-Norman Text Society, a cura di. An Anglo-Norman pharmacopoeia: (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 761). Oxford: published and distributed by the Anglo-Norman Text Society from St Peter's College, Oxford, 2017.

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Blacker, Andrew. "2. The Great Tower: Searching for its Origins in the Norman Diaspora of the Medieval Roman East". In Maritime Exchange and the Making of Norman Worlds, 49–84. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.tms-eb.5.134141.

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Stafford, Pauline. "The Meanings of Hair in the Anglo-Norman World: Masculinity, Reform, and National Identity". In Medieval Church Studies, 153–71. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.mcs-eb.3.1888.

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McCarthy, Conor. "The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century". In A Companion to Medieval Poetry, 161–80. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319095.ch9.

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Diggelmann, Lindsay. "Of Grifons and Tyrants: Anglo-Norman Views of the Mediterranean World during the Third Crusade". In Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 11–30. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.lmems-eb.3.765.

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Davis-Secord, Sarah. "Conclusion". In Where Three Worlds Met. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501704642.003.0007.

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This conclusion summarizes the book's findings about Sicily's conceptual place in the Mediterranean world—a position that had been crafted by the Norman rulers. Later medieval maps, together with the Hereford Mappa Mundi, show that Sicily was closely integrated into larger currents in the political and religious world of Latin Christendom. The island's political and diplomatic role in the dār al-Islām was fundamentally different to what it had been under the Byzantine empire. Sicily's place within larger Mediterranean systems was determined not by its geographical location but by larger forces of political change, shifts in the balance of power, and economic need as well as the actions of regular people—merchants, pilgrims, envoys, and others—who traveled to and from Sicily and thus involved the island in patterns of communication, contact, conflict, and exchange.

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"The Norman world, c. 1000–c. 1100". In Debating medieval Europe. Manchester University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526158222.00014.

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Bennett, Matthew. "Norman Conquests: A Strategy for World Domination?" In Journal of Medieval Military History, 91–102. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787441675.005.

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Bennett, Matthew. "4 Norman Conquests: A Strategy for World Domination?" In Journal of Medieval Military History, 91–102. Boydell and Brewer, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781787441675-006.

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Trotter, David. "Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin, and Words of Germanic Origin". In Latin in Medieval Britain. British Academy, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266083.003.0013.

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This chapter examines words of Germanic origin found in the DMLBS and considers them especially with respect to the relationship between three languages of medieval Britain: namely Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. A detailed examination of numerous examples reveals complex routes of transmission of items from Germanic sources which demand consideration of multiple sources over many centuries. In particular, because of the way the vernaculars developed and the nature of the extant evidence, it is often the case that the earliest evidence for an English or French word is found in a Latin word. The circuitous and overlapping interaction and contact between these languages can be seen very clearly in the example of warda, and the discussion shows, by reference to the theory of etimologia prossima and etimologia remota, how the Latin word must be analysed with regard both to etymology and semantics in order to reveal the different layers of influence at different stages of the word’s development in this multilingual society.

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Bartlett, Robert. "Lordship and Government". In England Under The Norman And Angevin Kings 1075–1225, 121–201. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198227410.003.0004.

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Abstract England in our period was a land in which ties of lordship and dependence were among the most essential and characteristic features of society. Reciprocal, but unequal, relationships of a personal kind tied lords and men in networks of mutual support. Lordship of this kind sharply marks off medieval from modern western societies. It involved a blend of powers and authorities usually kept distinct in the modern world, for all medieval lordship included elements that we would now distinguish as rights of property and rights of jurisdiction.

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Classen, Prof Albrecht. "Literature as a Testing Ground: Communication and Miscommunication in Medieval Literature, with an Emphasis on Marie de France and Heinrich Kaufringer". In 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 87. Eurasia Conferences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62422/978-81-968539-1-4-052.

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Even though many people consider literature simply as a medium for entertainment, we can easily recognize its much more powerful relevance for human existence. Within a fictional framework, all the critical issues in human life, such as vices and virtues, communication and miscommunication, love, the concept of death, of God, the issues of hatred and violence, have been explored throughout time. A good literary text thus proves its quality and value when the reader/listener is empowered to reflect on fundamental concerns affecting all of us. My focus here will rest on the ambivalent function of human language within a communicative context. It might be an almost banal notion that all human existence is determined by the effective use of language, since we constantly engage with each other through words or communicative signs (including gestures, mimicry, sounds, etc.). Nevertheless, the critical need to investigate what is wrong with our society does not abate even today; on the contrary. Here I propose to turn to two major medieval authors, twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Marie de France (Lais) and late fifteenth-century German Heinrich Kaufringer (maeren) who both offered a fairly large body of entertaining texts. In both cases, however, we discover quite easily the profound concern these writers share regarding the dysfunctionality of communication. Misunderstanding, conflicts, even aggression regularly surface and threaten to destroy the cohesion of society – very much a problem of the postmodern world as well. By way of looking at the central issue through a literary-historical lens, we gain fascinating insights into the importance of fictional texts in which basic human conflicts are presented and discussed. We can recognize in the texts by Marie de France and by Kaufringer extraordinarily effective narrative mediums to explore and learn about communication and miscommunication, how to identify the problems and how to approach them productively.

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