DATE CHANGE.
A talk by Matt Koval, Thursday, April 21, 4 pm, Pugh Hall 120:
“Childhood as Metaphor in the Medieval Polish Chronicle Gallus Anonymous”
Scholars since the 1990’s have argued that children were far more important in medieval life than previous scholars assumed. But just how important was the consciousness of childhood in the minds of medieval people? For the twelfth century Polish text written by Gallus, it seems to be one of the most important rhetorical tools and one of the most potent metaphors in the text, working on many layers. My presentation will explore a number of these dimensions as well as suggest some comparisons and test cases we could apply to the rest of Europe.