Wolfram R. Keller Livres

„Selves & Nations“ aims to contribute to our critical and historical understanding of the literary and cultural work performed by the Troy story, the most widely disseminated secular narrative in the Middle Ages. Reflecting contentious recent debates concerning selfhood, social performance, and nationalism, „Selves & Nations“ investigates the link between individual and national identities as it emerges in the Troy stories of Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Guido delle Colonne, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson as well as the anonymous „Laud Troy Book“. The study's cognitive, mythological approach unmasks Guide delle Colonne's Latin, imperial attempt to curtail the productive potential of Benoît's vernacular nationhood. The Middle English Troy stories, by means of a profound engagement with classical historiographical and poetological models, recover Benoît's Ovidian changeability, however, and chart viable alternatives to static constructions of collective identities in general and Guidoan imperialism in particular: with the poets, nationhood transforms into counter-nationhood.

Wolfram Keller, Dagmar Schlüter: Introduction (pp. 7-11) // Klaus Oschema: An Irish Making of Europe (Early and High Middle Ages) (pp. 12-30) // Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel: St Kilian and the Irish Network in Early Carolingian Europe (pp. 31-53) // Xenia Stolzenburg: The Holy Place as Formula: Floor Plans in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis to Specify the Description of Pilgrimage Sites in the Holy Land (pp. 54-85) // Dagmar Schlüter: Peripheral or Europeanized? Remarks about Continental and External Influences on the Book of Leinster (pp. 86-101) // Elizabeth Boyle: The Twelfth-Century English Transmission of a Poem on the Threefold Division of the Mind, Attributed to Patrick of Dublin (d. 1084) (pp. 102-116) // Maximilian Benz, Julia Weitbrecht: Afterworld Spaces in Medieval Visionary Texts of Irish Provenance (pp. 117-140) // Diarmuid Ó Riain: The Schottenklöster and the Legacy of the Irish sancti peregrini (pp. 141-164) // Thomas Poser: Peregrinatio and Transculturalism in the Regensburger Schottenlegende (pp. 165-182) // Nathanael Busch, Patrick Lange: „von Îbern und von Îrlant“: Ireland in Middle High German Literature (pp. 183-204) // Erich Poppe: Cultural Transfer and Textual Migration: Sir Bevis Comes to Ireland (pp. 205-220) //