Biographical note: Anna Heinze, Albert Schirrmeister und Julia Weitbrecht, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. How is the history of antiquity told, and what is the role of narrativity in transforming the image of antiquity? This volume addresses the highly charged intersection between experience, narrative, and history that may be apprehended when we consider the great diversity of narrative practices in literature, the visual arts, and historiography. Individual chapters explore transformations in the imagery, content, stories, and narrative modes of antiquity as they were appropriated in medieval and early modern chronicles, images, and epics How is the history of antiquity told, and what is the role of narrativity in transforming the image of antiquity? This volume addresses the highly charged intersection between experience, narrative, and history that may be apprehended when we consider the great diversity of narrative practices in literature, the visual arts, and historiography. Individual chapters explore transformations in the imagery, content, stories, and narrative modes of antiquity as they were appropriated in medieval and early modern chronicles, images, and epics. Wie wird Antikes erzählt und welche Rolle spielt Narrativität für die Transformationen von Antike? Das Thema des Bandes eröffnet ein Spannungsfeld von Ereignis, Erzählung und Geschichte, das sich in den unterschiedlichsten Gebrauchsformen von Narrativität in der Literatur, den bildenden Künsten und der Geschichtsschreibung fassen lässt. Die Beiträge untersuchen die Transformationen antiker Motive, Stoffe, Erzählungen und Erzählmodi in ihren mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Aneignungen, in Chronik, Bild und Epos.
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