How to Cite

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). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.921

Identifiers

ISBN 978-3-96822-108-3 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-96822-107-6 (Hardcover)

Published

05/12/2022

Authors

Mateusz Fafinski (Ed.), Jakob Riemenschneider (Ed.)

The Past Through Narratology

New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

„The Past through Narratology“ proposes a fresh approach to various types of texts from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Starting from a broad definition of what a text can be – ranging from hagiographic narratives and maps to archaeological remains – this book proposes narrativity and narratology as frameworks for exploring sources and exchanging opinions. The various contributions in this volume investigate how late antique and early medieval authors and movements used narrative as a vehicle for their ideas and how they operated in literarised spaces. At the same time, this book also examines how we as researchers construct narratives about our periods of study.

Mateusz Fafinski is a lecturer in History at the Freie Universität Berlin. He works on the adaptations in the post-Roman worlds, early medieval Latin manuscripts, early monasticism, as well as the role of urban space in early medieval societies.

Jakob Riemenschneider is a research associate at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests include historiography of late antiquity, literary strategies in Procopius, identity and ethnicity as well as early monasticism.

Media coverage

Michael Roberts, in: Plekos 26 (2024), 319–325.

Chapters

Table of Contents
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Contents
V-VI
Prolegomena
Mateusz Fafinski, Jakob Riemenschneider
Towards a Narratological Framework for Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
7-23
Narratology and Texts
Sihong Lin
Silent Narratives in the ‘Life of Eligius of Noyon’
27-39
Narratology and Literary Movements
Veronika Egetenmeyr
Emotional Persuasion in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris and Ruricius of Limoges
75-92
Michail Kitsos
Creating in Writing a Culture of Jewish-Christian Disputations in Late Antiquity
107-122
Salvatore Liccardo
Remembering Alexander the Great in the ‘Peutinger Table’
143-160
Narratology and the Meta-level
Philipp Margreiter
Ein Forschungsnarrativ über die Haßleben-Leuna-Gruppe und dessen Entstehung
181-204
Rutger Kramer, Ekaterina Novokhatko
Community, Sanctity, and the Reader Experience in Medieval Hagiographical Narratives
205-226
Index of Places
233-235
Index of Persons
237-240

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