Pöppel, Felix
Dissertation topic: " 'clégleiche mér, die sag ich dir'. Mechanisms of instruction and persuasion in the late medieval poetry of Peter Suchenwirt and Hugo of Montfort."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Junior Professorship of Medieval Comparative Studies
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
E-mail to Mr Pöppel
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Carlotta Posth
Second supervisors:
Prof. Dr Sandra Linden (Univ. Tübingen)
Class in the Graduate School: "Middle Ages and Early Modern Age"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2025/26.
Abstract:
If you want to move, you have to convince. This basic principle applies not only to today's digital society, but also, or even more so, in the media constitution of the Middle Ages, it was always necessary to give substance to this claim by means of legitimising and validating measures wherever the intention was to exert influence on the public. In the literary tradition, this claim has been made in particular by the genre of poetry since antiquity.
With this in mind, the present Germanic study focuses on the two late medieval Austrian authors Peter Suchenwirt (ca. 1320-1400) and his 'successor' Hugo von Mont-fort (1357-1423), whose thematically diverse works of poetry ultimately pursue a didactic implicature through a variety of literary strategies. The aim of this work is to investigate which forms of persuasion and authorisation the two poets create in their texts in order to achieve an educational effect through the lyrical form, and in which socio-cultural contexts these efforts can be located.
