Summer School
Rewriting the Bible in Verse in the Latin West (4th-14th c.):
typologies, interetextuality and contexts
4-5-6th July 2023
Université de Strasbourg – Palais universitaire – Salle Tauler
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4 juillet 2023
14h30 Welcome of the participants
15h00* Francesco Stella (Siena), Poetic rewritings of the Bible: typologies and diachronic framework
16h00 Carl Springer (Chattanooga), Reading the Biblical Verse of Late Antiquity: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Tradition
17h00 coffee break
17h30 Michele Cutino (Strasbourg), Bible rewritings as forms of theological expression: the narration of the Original Sin
18h30 Presentation of the PoBLAM project piloted by UR 4377 and Bergische Universität Wuppertal (M. Cutino- S. Freund) – Presentation of the draft edition of the Heptateuchos of Ps. Cyprian by the members of UR 4377 (M. Cutino, D. De Gianni, L. Furbetta, A. Leflaëc, R. Lestrade, F. Lubian)
5 juillet 2023
9h00 Stefan Freund (Wuppertal), Juvencus and his art of paraphrase. Selected case studies (4th c.)
10h00 Bruno Bureau (Lyon), Exegetic Insertions in Epic Narrative: is Arator creating a new poetic form?
11h00 coffee break
11h30 Student production workshop: comparison between the two modes of narrative and exegetical rewriting of a single biblical hypotext
Lunch
14h30 Luciana Furbetta (Trieste), Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Gaul between epic rewriting, exegetic reading and intertextuality (from the ‘Heptateuchos Poet’ to Avitus of Vienne)
15h30 Paulo Farmhouse Alberto (Lisbon), Biblical poetry in Visigothic Spain and its reception in Carolingian literature.
16h30 coffee brea
17h00 Student production workshop: rewriting the Bible for apologetic-polemical purposes
18h30 Presentation of databases of Juvencus’ reception (S. Freund) and of the medieval poetry (11th – 13th c.) (I. Burri- B. Bureau- F. Stella)
6 juillet 2023
9h00 Lucie Dolezalova (Prague), Remembering the Bible in later Middle Ages
10h00 Gottfried Kreuz (Salzburg), Biblical cantica within biblical paraphrases: Interrelations between biblical poetry and liturgy
11h00 coffee break
11h30 Student production workshop: classical intertextuality and liturgical practice: a case study Lunch
14h00 Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Toronto), Versifying the Cantica canticorum in the Later Middle Ages
15h00 Final balance of the summer school : return of the results of the student seminars