Authors
Tine Scheijnen (ed)
Ghent University
Keywords:
Troy, Greek, Latin
Synopsis
This volume offers a series of cross-cultural, in-depth studies of twelfth- to fifteenth-century medieval Troy narratives, mainly romances. Source texts are situated across a wide range of language traditions and include famous literary highlights (e.g. Benoît, Guido, Tzetzes and Eustathios) as well as lesser-known work (e.g. the Irish tradition) and expert comparative analyses within the same language traditions (e.g. Middle English, German).
With a unique synchronical focus, it highlights the classical reception of religious and supernatural elements, events and characters in the Middle Ages, embedded in the contemporary socio-cultural (notably Christian-political) ideological context. The volume subscribes to the transnational perspective that has long since proven its relevance for medieval studies and actively builds bridges between the ‘eastern’ Byzantine and ‘western’ vernacular traditions, which on a scholarly level are often still segregated.
Author Biographies
Tine Scheijnen, Ghent University
Tine Scheijnen is Doctor in Literary Studies (Ghent 2016). She is the author of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism (Brill 2018) and co-editor (with Berenice Verhelst) of Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context (Cambridge University Press 2022). As a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, she has published on heroic characterization in medieval Troy receptions.
Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Ellen Söderblom Saarela received her PhD at Linköping University in 2019 with a thesis entitled Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois: Rereading Byzantine Relations, in which she analyzes the anonymous Old French romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to Byzantine courtly literature, with the main focus put on Eumathios Makrembolites’ novel Hysmine and Hysminias. Her research circles around the novel genre in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with a specific focus on its courtly reception, such as in Old French romances and Byzantine Komnenian novels, as well as on feminist and gender theory.
A. Sophie Schoess, University of St Andrews
A. Sophie Schoess is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests include late antique epic poetry, Greek and Latin intertextuality, the relationship between image and text in the ancient world, and the reception of classical myth from Late Antiquity through Modernity. Her current research focuses on Christian interpretations and appropriations of classical myth in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Lilli Hölzlhammer, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Lilli Hölzlhammer obtained a BA in German Studies (2014) at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universtity of Munich, an MA in Byzantine Studies (2020), an MA in German Literature (2016) and another MA in Comparative Literature (2017). During her master’s, she completed two ERASMUS exchanges at the University of Aarhus (2015) and the University of Crete (2019) as well as a research exchange at the University of Kyoto (2016/17). She is currently working on her PhD in Greek Studies at Uppsala University, focusing on didactic narrative strategies in Greek and Arabic. Her interests lie in the narratological analysis of Byzantine texts and a comparative approach to their various parallels in Middle Eastern and ancient and medieval European literature.
Susannah L. Wright, Rice University
Susannah L. Wright is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Roman History at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in Classical Philology, with a secondary field in Medieval Celtic Languages, from Harvard University in 2024. Her research centers on Latin and Greek epic poetry and its transformations from antiquity to the Middle Ages, including in vernacular traditions. Together with Scott McGill (Rice University), she will soon publish a verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, forthcoming from W. W. Norton.
Baukje van den Berg, Central European University: Vienna, AT
Baukje van den Berg is Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University, Vienna. Her research focuses on Byzantine education and literary thought, as well as the role of ancient literature in Byzantine culture. Recent publications include the monograph Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad (Oxford 2022) and the co-edited volumes Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong (with M. de Bakker and J. Klooster; Leiden–Boston 2022) and Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries (with D. Manolova and P. Marciniak; Cambridge 2022).
Adam J. Goldwyn, North Dakota State University
Adam J. Goldwyn is Professor of English at North Dakota State University and the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (2018); Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (2021); and, most recently, Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II. With Dimitra Kokkini, he is co-translator of John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad (2015) and Allegories of the Odyssey (2019) and, with Ingela Nilsson, co-editor of Reading the Late Medieval Greek Romance: A Handbook (2019).
Hilke Hoogenboom, Leiden University
Hilke Hoogenboom studied Classical languages at Leiden University. During her studies, she focused on classical reception studies and gender theory. After her bachelor and research master, she decided to do a second master to get her teaching license. She currently works at a secondary school as a teacher in Classics. Furthermore, she is a study adviser at Leiden University, where she helps students who wish to become teachers in secondary education.
Copyright (c) 2025 Tine Scheijnen, Ellen Söderblom Saarela (Volume editor); A. Sophie Schoess, Lilli Hölzlhammer, Susannah L. Wright (Chapter Author); Baukje van den Berg (Volume editor); Adam J. Goldwyn, Hilke Hoogenboom (Chapter Author)
How to Cite
Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives: Vol. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 24. (2025). Scholarly books from Uppsala University Publications.
https://doi.org/10.33063/kqgmq452
