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Literarised Spaces: Towards a Narratological Framework for Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, in Fafinski, Mateusz and Riemenschneider, Jakob (Eds.): The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 18), p. 7–23. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.921.c13610

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Mateusz Fafinski, Jakob Riemenschneider

Literarised Spaces

Towards a Narratological Framework for Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Abstract This paper aims to establish a new framework for including narratological methodologies in the study of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, taking as its starting point an overview of narrative and narratological approaches to late and post-Roman worlds. The charac­teristics of both the sources and the research tradition of those periods make them well suited for such methodolo­gies. The paper identifies three primary levels of possible narratological reflection – single sources, literary move­ments, and meta-narratives. Key to this framework is the concept of literarisation – progressive shaping of various movements and spaces according to rules similar to those of a genre. Thanks to this structure and the identification of literarising phenomena, narratological approaches, can be included in late antique and early medieval hermeneutics and used for historical argumentation.