Conferences of Mittellatein_Erlangen

Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries) Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Saturday, 28 September 2024 Epic, beyond other genres, has been both a guarantor of cultural continuity for millennia and a site of fundamental innovations in literary style and content in Western culture. It has also occasioned heated controversies, because of the complex associations it bears, e.g., with nationalism, colonialism or racism. How do such debates relate to Medieval Latin – or do they? The conference Epic in the Latin West (4th–15th Centuries) proposes to explore the genre in its highly varied developments from Late Antiquity to the…