November 1

10:30-11:15 coffee, meet and greet

11:15-11:30 introductory remarks

11:30-13:00 Tristan/Tristram (chair: Matouš Jaluška)

Kristyna Solomon: The Old Czech Tristan-novel. Re-telling Between Tradition and Innovation

Maria Rita Digilio – Laura Gherardini: Tristan and Iwein in Italy. A Bohemian Codex of the National Central Library of Florence

Jan Hon: Czech Adaptations of Gottfriedian Poetics

13:00-14:30 lunch

14:30-15:30 Dissemination and Inertia (chair: Jan Hon)

Sabrina Niederelz: Tradition and Expectations. Later Medieval Texts about the Son of Gawain

Levente Seláf: How to Explain the Absence of Courtly Romance in Hungarian Literature – the Missing Link or a Linguistic and Cultural Desert?

15:30-16:00 coffee

16:00-17:00 Picturing Narratives (chair: Cora Dietl)

Matouš Turek: History as Heroics. Representing Charles IV in Two Vita Caroli Manuscripts

Jan Dienstbier: Narrative and Metaphor in Visual Representations of Medieval Romances

November 2

9:30-10:00 coffee

10:00-11:00 Tandareis/Tandariáš (chair: Martin Šorm)

Lena Zudrell: One Tenth of Tandareis. On Characters and Programmatic Reduction of Arthurian Literature

Matthias Meyer: The Repetition Game. On the Aesthetics of Tandarius

11:00-11:30 coffee

11:30-12:30 Knights and Mystics (chair: Matthias Meyer)

Cora Dietl: Development from an Ascetic to a Knightly King. Legends of St Wenceslaus, 10th–14th c.

Matthias Däumer: Of Sentinels and Neutral Angels. On the Connection Between the Jewish ‚Book of Watchers‘ and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Grail Mythology

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:30 Narrations and Nations (chair: Matouš Turek)

Vojtěch Bažant: Tower of Babel in Medieval Historiography from Bohemia

Martin Šorm: Dalimil’s Crossover. On Love, Nation and Memory

Matouš Jaluška: The Problem of Courtliness in Old Czech Narratives