A workshop – programme below – will be held at the University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages, 21 Woodland Rd. on Wednesday October 14th. The event is free and open to all, but please confirm attendance to the organiser
at Bristol: Dr. Marianne Ailes: [log in to unmask]
Charlemagne: A European icon
Workshop:
October 14th
(2-5.30 pm.)
University of Bristol School of Modern Languages, 21 Woodland Rd. G108
The Leverhulme Trust Funded ‘Charlemagne: A European Icon’ invite you to attend a workshop showcasing recent research by Italian, Francophone and Norse
researchers
2.00-3.00
Research papers session 1
Catherine Leglu (Reading) 'Charlemagne
in Occitania: founder, not warrior?'
Sif Rickhardsdottir (Iceland) ‘Charlemagne in the Norse
Context’
3.00 Tea
3.30-4.30
Research papers session 2
Annalisa Perrotta (Rome) ‘The space of the court and the "memory" of Rencesvals
rout in fifteenth-Century Italian chivalric literature’
Franca Strologo (Zurich) ‘From Carlo Mainetto to Orlando:
dating the Italian cantari of Charlemagne
4.45 – 5.30
Round Table: ‘To what extent is Charlemagne A European Icon?’
Albrecht Classen (Arizona); Phillipa Hardman (Reading), William Purkis (Birmingham)
Lecture (6-7pm LR8)
Albrecht Classen (Benjamin Meaker Visiting Fellow)
‘The Role of Charlemagne in Medieval German Literature
Myth-Making in the Middle Ages and until Today’
Evening wine reception (7pm SML Common Room)
Evening wine reception (7pm SML Common Room)