Annotation
The seminar takes place in room 104 in the main building of the Faculty of Arts, náměstí Jana Palacha 2.
It is the sixth of six-semester long guest lecture series in medieval studies focused on medieval conceptual and social conflicts and contrasts. The fall semester of 2018/2019 is focused on the concept of metaphor.
The course is aimed at PhD students and advanced MA students but anyone interested in, or working on, any aspect of medieval studies is most cordially welcome. Materials accompanying the lectures are available from the Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=643).
Five credits for the course, conducted in English, are worth regular attendance (three absences maximum) and a successful completion of a final test.
The test will take the form of a mini-essay of 600 words minimum you will be required to write in English on a topic of your own choice from a set of 10 test topics based on the lectures. The test will take 120 mins.
The dates for taking the test are as follows: 7 January (10.50, Room 104/P); 28 January (10.50, Room 104/P); 11 February (10.50, Room 104/P). 3.10.
Katrin Kogman-Appel (Münster):
Jewish Metaphors of Political Power: Ruler Portraits in the Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, c. 1375) 10.10.
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (Curych):
Ambiguous words, prophetic deeds: Augustine on figurative language 17.10.
Kati Ihnat (Nijmegen)
Martyrdom and metaphor: Saints as Christian symbols in medieval Iberia 24.10.
Elizabeth Archibald (University of Durham)
Bathing Metaphors 31.10.
Zoltán Kövecses (ELTE), Budapest
Applications of conceptual metaphor theory to the history of metaphorical thought 7.11.
Kathryn Allan (University College London):
(on the death of metaphor) 14.11.
Krzysztof Nowak (Lexicon Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis Polonorum, Institute of Polish LanguagePolish Academy of Sciences, Krakow):
Food, Memory, and Time in the Middle Ages. Towards corpus study of Medieval Latin metaphors 21.11.
Sakari Katajamäki (Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki):
Tigerlillia Terribilis, and other concretised metaphors in nonsense literature 28.11.
Philip Polcar (Vienna):
Jerome's use of metaphors 5.12.
Ryan Szpiech (Michigan)
Conversion as Figure and Event 12.12.
Marek Thue Kretschmer (Trondheim):
Myth and Metaphor in the Medieval Commentary Tradition 19.12.
Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick):
Biblical allegories of space and object in scholastic and devotional exposition