CHIVALRICFICTIONS

"Chivalric Literature in European Renaissance: Political Fictions. Land, enemies, alliances, authority, identity"

Coordinatore	ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE    more  Organization address address: EGHAM HILL UNIVERSITY OF LONDON city: EGHAM postcode: TW20 0EX contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jenny Cognome: Febry Email: send email Telefono: +44 1784 443019 Fax: +44 1784 443019
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	0 €
EC contributo	172˙618 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-09-01   -   2011-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE  Organization address address: EGHAM HILL UNIVERSITY OF LONDON city: EGHAM postcode: TW20 0EX contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jenny Cognome: Febry Email: send email Telefono: +44 1784 443019 Fax: +44 1784 443019	UK (EGHAM)	coordinator	172˙618.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Between Boiardo’s Inamoramento de Orlando (1483) and Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (1575), the tradition of chivalric literature in Italy was the turning point of the inheritance and the subsequent spreading out of a larger European tradition (particularly French). The project aims to point out continuities and fractures in the history of this literary genre, within those chronological coordinates. In the second half of the 15th century, the chivalric poem in ottava rima, often anonymous, assumed a peculiar role in the process of political communication about the war against Muslims and the legitimation of power; it became also the place where those writers reprocessed societal fears about external enemies, the idea of the stranger, the need of alliances. These issues were crucial in chivalric literature due to the strong connection of poems with history and with the political aims of the ruling classes. Furthermore, the diffusion of those chivalric poems was strengthened by the spread of printing. After Boiardo’s Inamoramento the genre changed deeply, but the contents, goals and narrative topoi of the previous literature remained strong points of reference for any following writer. Until now, critics have focused on the main authors, and studies about chivalric literature between Boiardo and Ariosto, and between Ariosto and Tasso have been conducted without considering the 15th century experience. My research aims to: - discover which narrative topoi changed during 15th century and which ones continued to be perceived as important - pick out situations in which topoi abandoned for a while appeared again - account for fractures, continuities, re-emergence - test the possibility to extend the results about the matter of France to heroic poetry - display what changes when the author is a woman: how she employs the topoi and what communicative aims are thereby served.'