Medievalists.net » Vagantes http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Call for Papers: Vagantes 2014 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/07/call-for-papers-vagantes-2014/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/07/call-for-papers-vagantes-2014/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:14:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44135 Conference taking place from March 20-22, 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/07/call-for-papers-vagantes-2014/feed/ 0 VAGANTES: Between Tradition and Change: Monastic Reform in Three fifteenth-century German Redactions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-between-tradition-and-change-monastic-reform-in-three-fifteenth-century-german-redactions-of-the-life-of-saint-mary-of-egypt/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-between-tradition-and-change-monastic-reform-in-three-fifteenth-century-german-redactions-of-the-life-of-saint-mary-of-egypt/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:41:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30599 Using the life of St. Mary of Egypt, this paper will consider three different Middle High German versions produced by reform communities and will analyze how the reform ideologies and goals manifest in the texts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-between-tradition-and-change-monastic-reform-in-three-fifteenth-century-german-redactions-of-the-life-of-saint-mary-of-egypt/feed/ 0 VAGANTES: “What has Beowulf to do with a Christian King?” Heroic Legend as Poetic Speculum Principis http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-what-has-beowulf-to-do-with-a-christian-king-heroic-legend-as-poetic-speculum-principis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-what-has-beowulf-to-do-with-a-christian-king-heroic-legend-as-poetic-speculum-principis/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:00:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30591 Through a rhetorical analysis based in grounded theory that analyzes fifteen speeches and their contexts made by Hroðgar, Beowulf, and Wiglaf, I will show how the poet appropriated the Beowulf legend to present a dramatized speculum principis using the rhetorical devices common to oral-traditional narratives to articulate the three traits of kingship most highly valued by both secular and sacred authorities: generosity, faith, and protectiveness.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/30/vagantes-what-has-beowulf-to-do-with-a-christian-king-heroic-legend-as-poetic-speculum-principis/feed/ 0 VAGANTES: Hālnes and hǽlþ:Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/29/halnes-and-h%c7%bdlthanglo-saxon-bodily-wellness/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/29/halnes-and-h%c7%bdlthanglo-saxon-bodily-wellness/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:38:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30556 Since most of the surviving mentions of wellness relate to the health of the soul, it is not clear what constituted a healthy Anglo-Saxon body. This paper will use the Old English poem Soul and Body and Old English medical texts to explore Anglo-Saxon bodily wellness.

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