On Being a Medievalist and More
This Colloquy is one of two that originated in the "After 1967" conference in which we celebrated the work of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. While the other (soon to appear) Colloquy gathers papers and related materials that reflect the general shape of Gumbrecht's career, this one is concerned with his relation to medieval literature, his original field of interest.
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On "the inspiring resistance that the [Middle Ages] imposes on us, and the hermeneutic difficulty—maybe even the impossibility—of accessing medieval culture."

Essay
One of the main challenges of understanding medieval literature is that it is not “literature” in the modern sense.

Essay
On the memorabilità of medieval poetry and how we think about it now.