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Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures | 2017

December Liberties: Playing with the Roman Poets in the High-Medieval Schools

Mia Münster-Swendsen

This essay discusses how and to what ends eleventh- to early thirteenth-century writers from the schools, monastic as well as secular, more or less explicitly incorporated elements from and allusions to the canon of classical Roman poetry into their own work. What function did these elements have, beyond literary embellishment and erudite showing-off? This essay remains a historians view and represents a historians attempt to grapple with the meaning and function of this classicising literature in its particular social setting – namely that of the northern European educational milieus of the two centuries after the first millennium. The hypothesis is that these intertextual references played a crucial part in making it possible to engage in very direct and often outrageous satire – which functioned as a clever pedagogical tool to enliven teaching, but also seems to have had a connection to a specific time in the school calendar, namely the Christmas season, during which the unwritten rules of decorum and restrictions that governed social interaction in the school community were momentarily relaxed. It is my contention that these texts were not an aberration from a more solemn and serious norm, but integral parts of a didactic and distinctly performative practice, which included a deliberate, subtly regulated playing with roles of power and authority and, not least, role-reversals. This seems particularly to be the case in the correspondence (real or imagined) consisting of letter-poems – often erotically explicit – between teachers and their students. A select number of examples of this intriguing literature, from various milieus and settings, are presented, and the essay addresses the question of how we as modern scholars should interpret it – particularly if our aim is to use it as a repository of historical source material regarding the social life of the high-medieval learned milieus. It is contended that these remarkable and sometimes outrageous texts, as well as being vehicles of the teaching of Latin composition, became a tool for negotiating and defining intimate relationships between people within these learned milieus, whether between equals, between superiors and subordinates, or between men and women.


The Medieval Review | 2017

17.01.15, Armstrong, The Idea of a Moral Economy

Mia Münster-Swendsen


The Medieval Review | 2017

Review: Armstrong, Lawrin. The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription. Toronto Studies in Medieval Law. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2016. pp. x, 331.

Mia Münster-Swendsen


Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures | 2017

Rediscovery and Canonization: The Roman Classics in the Middle Ages

Paolo Borsa; Christian Høgel; Lars Boje Mortensen; Elizabeth M. Tyler; Birger Munk Olsen; Jaakko Tahkokallio; Karin Margareta Fredborg; Monika Otter; Mia Münster-Swendsen; Wim Verbaal; Francine Mora; Venetia Bridges; Jean-Yves Tilliette; Filippo Bognini; Irene Salvo García; Marek Thue Kretschmer; Rita Copeland


The Medieval Review | 2016

16.05.09, Høgel and Bartoli, eds., Medieval Letters

Mia Münster-Swendsen


The Medieval Review | 2016

Review of Høgel, Christian, and Elisabetta Bartoli , eds. Medieval Letters: Between Fiction and Document. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 33. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. pp. xi, 471. €110.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-2-503-55520-1

Mia Münster-Swendsen


Archive | 2016

Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century: The Scandinavian Connection

Mia Münster-Swendsen; Thomas Heebøll-Holm; Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn


Archive | 2016

Lost Chronicle or Elusive Informers?: Some Thoughts on the Source of Ralph Niger´s Reports from Twelfth-Century Denmark

Mia Münster-Swendsen


Historisk Tidsskrift | 2016

Oxford-udgaven af Saxos Gesta Danorum: Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum. The History of the Danes, I-II. Udg.: Karsten Friis-Jensen & overs.: Peter Fisher. Oxford, 2015.

Mia Münster-Swendsen


Historisk Tidsskrift | 2016

Debatanmeldelse: Oxfordudgaven af Saxos Gesta Danorum

Mia Münster-Swendsen

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Christian Høgel

University of Southern Denmark

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Lars Boje Mortensen

University of Southern Denmark

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Filippo Bognini

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

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