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2025: Medieval Forms of First-Person Narration: Authorship – Authorization – Authority (Villa Vigoni Talks III)
This multi-author volume takes as its subject medieval first-person poetic narratives, a literary format that came to prominence in the course of the later European Middle Ages (c. 1250-1500), quickly developing into an extensive text family. The papers published here were presented at a trilateral conference series held at the Villa Vigoni in Italy. This present volume takes up the questions explored during the third conference: How do medieval first-person narratives conceptualize authorship and put it into practice? What kind of authority do they invoke? How do they connect to that authority? What precisely are the processes of authorization involved? To be sure, such questions might be asked of texts in every format, but they are especially crucial to the analysis of first-person narratives because the ›I‹ is by definition implicated in the events narrated or, at the very least, in the narrated world where they unfold. This essential quality of first-person narratives prompts further questions: What is the narrator’s relation to the narrative and the text itself, its creation? What do the formal features of the texts tell us about the presence of an authorial ‘I’, how does he or she relate to the discursive content, and, perhaps most crucially, what purpose does the text itself come to serve?
Cover picture: Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour), British Library, Stowe MS 955 (fol. 15r), ca. 1500, Parchment and paper, French/Italian, 130 x 95 mm. By permission of the British Library.
Veröffentlicht:
18.12.2025
