Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives

Lecture series The classical world in Western Reality

The tradition of the Heroides in the Middle Ages: a sentimental education in images

Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto

Ramon and Cajal Researcher from the History and Art department of the University of Santiago de Compostela

Coordinator of the lecture series

Marco Antonio Coronel Ramos

Professor of the Classical Philology, University of Valencia

Rosa M, Rodriguez Porto is hired as a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Specialist in the studies of illuminated manuscript and classical tradition in Late Middle Ages, developed her academic career in Holland, Great Britain and Denmark. She is a co-director of the Troianalexandria magazine, dedicated to the study about the reception of the ancient culture of the Middle Ages.

In the XII century marks, according to the well-known assertion of Ludwig Traube, the beginning of the true aetas Ovidiana, a result of the medieval readers´ growing fascination on The Metamorphosis, Heroides, and in the smaller extend, The Fasti, by the author from Sulmona. It is about the medieval reception of the Heroides, which will be the topic of the talk,

This talk will focus on the reception of the Heroides and will pay special attention to the marks left by the Ovid´s epistles on the European vernacular literature, where they served as the model for the forging of the new sensibility in the expression of feelings and the development of the female characters with great psychological depth. All of this will be in company of the creation of the visual imagery where these women from Antiquity take the leading role and portray themselves as the authors of their own story, creating a link between their medieval readers.

Free entry, limited capacity.

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