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AGEING-conference, FIM-panel "Ageing Heroes in Medieval Literature"

Painting of The Three Ages of Man
"The Three Ages of Man" by the painter Giorgione.

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AGEING: Histories, Mythologies and Taboos

 

The Research Group Literature and Science is organising the interdisciplinary conference "AGEING: Histories, Mythologies and Taboos" on 30th - 31st January. The Research Group for Medieval Philology is represented at the conference with its own panel "Ageing Heroes in Medieval Literature"on Saturday 31st January. Registration for full participation ends on 28th January, but neither registration nor the payment of the conference fee is necessary for the attendance of individual panels, such as the Research Group in Medieval Philology's panel.

 

"Ageing Heroes in Medieval Literature"

14:40 - 15:10

Eike Schnall - The Ageing Hero in Old Germanic Tradition

15:10 - 15:40

Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen - The Medieval Germanic Hero and Old Age

15:40 - 16:10

Florian Schreck - A Glimpse of Greatness. Old Age in the Medieval Mágus saga jarls