The conference aims to examine the persistence of ancient novelistic material in hagiography and instances of continuity of novelistic and/or hagiographical strands in medieval romances in the West, Byzantium and Persia. Troughout the three-day programme, intersections are explored between different narrative traditions:

• Ancient novelistic fiction (broadly defined), including Greek novels (both extant and fragmentarily preserved, Latin novels, Jewish novels and so-called ‘fringe novels’ or ‘novelistic biographies’
• Hagiography from the fourth to the twelfth century, including Lives, Martyr Acts, hagiographical romances, and edifying tales written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Coptic
• Medieval romance in the West, Byzantium or Persia.

This conference is organised by the research team of the ERC-Starting Grant project ‘Novel Saints. Studies in Ancient Fiction and Hagiography’ at Ghent University (PI: Koen De Temmerman)

Programme : here

Informations pratiques :

When : 22-11-2018 09:00 to 24-11-2018 13:00
Where : Ghent, Het Pand (University Conventiion Center), Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent
Language : English
Organizer : Flavia Ruani
Contact : Flavia.Ruani@UGent.be

Source : Universiteit Gent