Space plays an important role in the narrative structure of "Vitas patrum" through its various functions: 1) the place the monks and hermits have decided to withdraw to in order to spend their existence in penitence; 2) the setting for the intervention of the ‘fantastic’ (intended as the ‘marvellous’ pertaining to the Christian sphere) in their lives; 3) the itinerary of Jerome and his companions in the section corresponding to "Historia monachorum" (VP I according to the Old Norse tradition). The aim of the paper whose abstract is published here was to investigate how these aspects are treated in the Old Norse version of the text, which originated and circulated in a cultural milieu where the spatial location represented, roughly corresponding to the Egyptian and Middle Eastern desert, constituted an exotic scenario.

The representation of space in the Old Norse Vitas patrum / A. Meregalli - In: Sagas and Space / [a cura di] J. Glauser, K. Müller-Wille, A.K. Richter, L. Rösli. - Zürich : Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Skandinavische Studien, 2015. - ISBN 9783033051676. - pp. 207-207 (( Intervento presentato al 16. convegno International Saga Conference tenutosi a Zürich nel 2015.

The representation of space in the Old Norse Vitas patrum

A. Meregalli
2015

Abstract

Space plays an important role in the narrative structure of "Vitas patrum" through its various functions: 1) the place the monks and hermits have decided to withdraw to in order to spend their existence in penitence; 2) the setting for the intervention of the ‘fantastic’ (intended as the ‘marvellous’ pertaining to the Christian sphere) in their lives; 3) the itinerary of Jerome and his companions in the section corresponding to "Historia monachorum" (VP I according to the Old Norse tradition). The aim of the paper whose abstract is published here was to investigate how these aspects are treated in the Old Norse version of the text, which originated and circulated in a cultural milieu where the spatial location represented, roughly corresponding to the Egyptian and Middle Eastern desert, constituted an exotic scenario.
Vitas patrum; Hagiography; Old Norse literature
Settore L-LIN/15 - Lingue e Letterature Nordiche
Settore L-FIL-LET/15 - Filologia Germanica
2015
University of Zurich
University of Basel
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