Medieval Metamorphoses. A Workshop on Ovid and Medieval Commentary Culture
Workshop, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, March 20-22, 2019.
Program
Wednesday 20 March
14:00: Opening remarks
Session 1: 14:00-16:00
- Frank T. Coulson, “Cataloguing the Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on the Metamorphoses: Problems and Pespectives”
- Robin Böckerman, “The Metamorphoses and the Twelfth Century”
- David T. Gura, “The Auctor iste Commentator and Ovid's Metamorphoses”
BREAK
Session 2: 16:30-18:30
- Marek Thue Kretschmer, “Explanations of the Theban Narrative in the Ovide moralisé and the Ovidius moralizatus”
- Pablo Piqueras Yagüe, “The Order of the Fables in the Ovidius moralizatus”
- Irene Salvo García, “Commentary Tradition and Cultural Heritage: the Classical Past in Vernacular Languages”
RECEPTION
Thursday 21 March
Session 3: 10:00-12:00
- Margareta Fredborg, “Ovidian Quotations in Twelfth-Century Horatian Commentaries”
- Lisa Ciccone, “Reading the auctores to Become a Poet: the Role of Fourteenth-Century Commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Horace’s Ars poetica”
- William Little, “What Commentaries on the Epistula Sapphus Tell Us About Humanist Attitudes Toward Ovid and Sappho”
LUNCH
Session 4: 14:00-16:00
- Eric Cullhed, “Beauty in Homeric Exegesis”
- Pádraic Moran, “Glossing Ovid in Ninth-Century Irish and Welsh Manuscripts”
- Marjorie Curry Woods, “Owning Earlier Literatures”
BREAK
16:30-18:00: Panel discussion 1: Research update
DINNER
Friday 22 March
10:00-11:00: Text seminar 1: “Quidam philosophi fuerunt: Ovid and Philosophical Explanations in the Commentaries”
11:00-12:00: Panel discussion 2: Editorial challenges: a micro workshop
LUNCH
13:00-14:00: Text seminar 2: Marjorie Curry Woods, “Evidence of performance in the Medieval Classroom: A Discussion of ‘Boys Performing Girls (and Men)’”
14:00-15:00: Panel discussion 3: Strategies for the future
15:00 Concluding remarks
Participants
- Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, Stockholm University/University of Southern Denmark
- Lisa Ciccone, University of Zurich
- Frank T. Coulson, The Ohio State Unversity
- Eric Cullhed, Uppsala University
- Margareta Fredborg, Copenhagen
- Irene Salvo García, University of Southern Denmark
- David T. Gura, University of Notre Dame
- Marek Thue Kretschmer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- William Little, The Ohio State University
- Pádraic Moran, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin
- Pablo Piqueras Yagüe, Universidad de Murcia
Organiser: Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, Stockholm University/University of Southern Denmark For more information contact the organiser at rwb@su.se
Sessions 1-4 are open to the public. If you are interested in attending, please notify the organiser at rwb@su.se.