Marek Thue Kretschmer
About
As of July 1st 2020, Prof. Kretschmer assumes the office of Director of the Norwegian University Centre in Paris
Marek Thue KRETSCHMER was trained in classics (Greek and Latin) at the University of Bergen (candidatus philologiae, 2001) where he also became an associated member of the Centre for Medieval Studies, specializing in Medieval Latin, manuscript studies and textual criticism with Professor Lars Boje Mortensen.
After earning a Doctorate in Latin in 2006, Kretschmer has spent his career as an Associate Professor of Latin (2006-2011) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where he was promoted to Full Professor of Medieval Latin Literature in 2011.
He has published widely in the field of Latin literature and especially on the medieval reception of the Latin classics (with contributions to the Cambridge Companions to Latin Love Elegy and Roman Comedy). Among his fields of expertise are the medieval French and Latin reception of Ovid (esp. the Ovide moralisé and Pierre Bersuire's Ovidius moralizatus which he is editing), Medieval Latin poetry (publishing the first monograph on the Versus Eporedienses) and historiography (with both a monograph in the Mittellateinische Studien und Texte and an edited volume in Textes et Études du Moyen Âge). His articles on different aspects of Medieval Latin Literature, ranging from literary topics (mythography, allegory, symbolism) to various philological issues (metrics and style or questions related to manuscript traditions etc) or specific authors (such as Paul the Deacon, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Baudri of Bourgueil, Hugh Primas, Otto of Freising, Serlo of Wilton and Gerald of Wales), have been published in the leading journals of the field : Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Filologia Mediolatina, The Journal of Medieval Latin, Revue d'histoire des textes, Studi Medievali, Latomus, Viator etc. (for details see below).
Kretschmer has been invited as a speaker or lecturer to several universities and institutions such as the University of Bergen (2005, 2010, 2011, 2014), University of Gothenburg (2007), University of York (2009, 2016), Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa - Naples (2010), Sofia University (2011), King’s College London (2012), Uppsala University (2012), Complutense, Madrid (2012), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2012), Institut Historique Allemand, Paris (2014), Université Paris Nanterre (2017), Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2018), Università degli Studi di Siena (2013), University of Southern Denmark, Odense (2015, 2017), Stockholm University (2016), Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma (2017), University of Leeds (2018), École normale supérieure de Lyon (2018), Charles University in Prague (2018, 2022), Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome (2019), École française de Rome (2019), Université de Bourgogne (2019), Università degli Studi di Sassari (2019, 2021), Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2021), University of Oxford (2022), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (2023), Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo (2023), Ohio State University (2023); visiting professor at the Centre for Medieval Literature (Centre of Excellence at the University of Southern Denmark) in 2017 (Sept.-Dec.), chercheur résident in 2018 (Jan.-Dec.) at Maison Suger - Centre international de recherche, d'accueil et de coopération pour chercheurs étrangers de haut niveau in Paris, visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Sassari in 2019 (Dec.); Kretschmer was elected to the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino in 2013 and to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 2017.
Research projects
Critical edition of the Ovidius moralizatus
Critical edition of Pierre de Saintes' Viribus arte minis
Bersuire's Decades: The First French Translation of Titus Livius' Roman History
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
On Roman Love Elegy and the Medieval Reception of Ovid
Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics (Publications of The Journal of Medieval Latin 14), Brepols, Turnhout 2020.
“Two Poems in Search of an Author: A Note on the Versus Eporedienses and the Novus Avianus Astensis”, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 56 (2021), 108-133.
"Amores 3.6 and the Versus Eporedienses", The Journal of Medieval Latin 26 (2016), 31-42.
“The Play of Ambiguity in the Medieval Latin Love Letters of the Ovidian Age”, in Ch. Høgel and E. Bartoli (eds.), Medieval Letters – between Fiction and Document, (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 33), Brepols, Turnhout 2015, 247-263.
"The Elegiac Love Poems Versus Eporedienses and De Tribus Puellis and the Ovidian Backdrop”, The Journal of Medieval Latin 23 (2013), 35-47.
"The Love Elegy in Medieval Latin Literature (Pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian Imitations)", in T. S. Thorsen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy, Cambridge 2013, 271-289.
On the (Medieval French and Latin) Ovidian Commentary Tradition
"Réflexions sur quelques caractéristiques de la rédaction A2 de l'Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire", Revue d'histoire des textes (à paraître)
"La figure d'Esculape dans l'Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire", Symbolae Osloenses 96 (2022), 184-204.
“La figure de Bacchus dans l’Ovide moralisé et dans l’Ovidius moralizatus”, dans J.-M. Fritz, O. A. Duhl et S. Menegaldo (éds.), Bacchus entre Moyen âge et Renaissance, Dijon (à paraître).
"L'Ovide moralisé et la version parisienne de l'Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire", dans C. Gaullier-Bougassas et M. Possamaï-Pérez (éds.), Réécritures et adaptations de l'Ovide moralisé (XIVe - XVIIe siècle), Brepols, Turnhout 2022, 23-40.
"Procédés d’amplification dans l’Ovide moralisé”, dans C. Croizy-Naquet et M. Szkilnik (éds.), Faire long. L'amplification médiévale, Paris 2021, 53-80.
"Quelques observations sur l'Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire", Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes 41 (2021), 83-102.
"L’Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire : essai de mise au point", Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 3 (2016), 221-244.
On the (Medieval French and Latin) Ovidian Commentary Tradition and the Matter of Troy
"L'Adam paradisiaque, l'Adam pécheur et l'Adam pèlerin : Essai d'interprétation de l'Ovide moralisé XI, 1099-2995", Le Moyen Âge. Revue d'histoire et de philologie 128 (2022), 433-447.
"La figure d'Achille dans l’Ovide moralisé et dans l’Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire", Troianalexandrina 20 (2020), 91-125.
On the Matter of Troy
“The Matter of Troy in Medieval Latin Poetry”, in F. Stella, L. Doležalová and D. Shanzer (eds.), Latin Literatures in Medieval and Early Modern Times Inside and Outside Europe. A Millennium History, (Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 34), John Benjamins, Amsterdam 2024, pp. 769-793.
"Literary Appropriations of the Matter of Troy in Medieval Latin Poetry ca. 1070-1170", Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 48 (2013), 41-54 and 49 (2014), 383-392.
"Bourgueil, la nouvelle Athènes (ou Troie), et Reims, la nouvelle Rome - La notion de translatio studii chez Baudri de Bourgueil", Latomus 70 (2011), 1102-1116.
"Aeneas without the Gods: a 10th-century Abbreviation and Paraphrase of the Excidium Troie" , Studi Medievali 51 (2010), 307-327.
On the Medieval Reception of Roman Comedy
"The Anti-Terentian Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim", in M. Dinter (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, Cambridge 2019, 297-311.
"Autorità e no - Alcune considerazioni sul progetto antiterenziano di Rosvita di Gandersheim", in E. D'Angelo and J. Ziolkowski (eds.), Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris - Proceedings of the Sixth Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee, Firenze 2014, 555-565.
On Roman History and Medieval Latin Historiography
“La Historia Romana e i marginalia del codice Vat. Lat. 1984”, in F. Delle Donne, P. Garbini and M. Zabbia (eds.), Scrivere storia nel medioevo. Regolamentazione delle forme e delle pratiche nei secoli XII-XV, Viella, Rome 2021, 185-200.
"Un recueil pour connaître l’homme et le monde : Savoir géographique, historique et moral dans le manuscrit Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional 8816", in M. J. Muñoz, P. Cañizares & C. Martín (eds.), La compilación del saber en la edad media, (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 69), Brepols, Turnhout 2013, 301-313.
"Historiographical Rewriting", Filologia Mediolatina 15 (2008), 283-306.
"Some Remarks on a 10th-Century Paraphrase of the Epitome de Caesaribus", Symbolae Osloenses 83 (2008), 84-95.
Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages - the Historia Romana and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3, (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 36), Brill, Leiden 2007.
"Una versione abbreviata e parafrasata della Historia Romana di Landolfo Sagace: Edizione del codice Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, n. a. lat. 1523-II", Symbolae Osloenses 78 (2003), 71-128.
On Medieval Latin Historiography and Biblical Typology
“ ‘Drinking of the Golden Cup of Babylon’ : Biblical Typology and Imagery in the Chronicle of Otto of Freising”, Viator 47 (2016), 67-84.
La typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale, (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 75), Brepols, Turnhout 2014.
On a Neo-Latin Epyllion on the City of Trondheim
“Vergilian Imitations in Hans Skanke's Fata Nidrosiana (1709)”, in H. Lamers & S. Bär (ed.), Studia in honorem Vibeke Roggen, Oslo 2022, p. 255-270.
Editorial roles
Examples of invited lectures
« Towards an Edition of the Parisian Version of the Ovidius Moralizatus », Ohio State University, 15-16 Novembre 2023.
« La correspondance d’Alexandre le Grand et du Brahmane Dindime dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge », Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, 18-19 octobre 2023.
« Riflessioni sulla sincronizzazione di mito e storia nella letteratura latina altomedievale », Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, 17 April 2023.
« Les voix du passé : Les sources du Compendium historial d'Henri Romain », Université Charles de Prague, 24 septembre 2022.
« La materia troiana nella poesia latina medievale », Università degli Studi di Sassari / Antiquarium Arborense di Oristano, 14 December 2021.
« I Versus Eporedienses e gli inizi dell'età ovidiana », Università degli Studi di Sassari, 10 décembre 2019.
« La figure de Bacchus dans l'Ovide moralisé et dans l'Ovidius moralizatus », Université de Bourgogne, 28 novembre 2019.
« L'Historia Romana e i marginalia del codice Vaticano Latino 1984 », École française de Rome, 17 septembre 2019.
« Explanations of the Theban Narrative in the Ovide moralisé and the Ovidius moralizatus », Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, 20 March 2019.
« Myth and Metaphor in the Medieval Commentary Tradition », Charles University in Prague, 12 December 2018.
« Procédés d'amplification dans l'Ovide moralisé », Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 30 novembre 2018.
« Les ajouts de la version parisienne de l'Ovidius moralizatus », École normale supérieure de Lyon, 18 octobre 2018
« Explaining Troy in the Ovide moralisé and in the Ovidius moralizatus », University of Leeds, 4 July 2018.
« Amplifications des Métamorphoses dans l'Ovide moralisé », Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 13 avril 2018.
« La matière troyenne dans l'Ovide moralisé et dans l'Ovidius moralizatus », Université Paris Nanterre, 6 avril 2017.
Supervision
Any student wishing to write a Master's or Doctoral thesis on a topic in Latin literature may contact Kretschmer at marek.kretschmer@ntnu.no