by Diane Watt, University of Surrey This post is derived from part of the closing plenary that I delivered at the conference Margery Kempe Studies in the 21st Century, held at University College Oxford, 5th-7th April 2018. The inauguration of the Margery Kempe Society was announced at the conference. In 1985, I was an […]
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Dr J. J. McFarlane, April, 2018 Whitby Abbey 1 by Chris Kirk 1 License: CC BY 2. Caedmon’s Hymn or Song (c.660-680) is celebrated as the fount of English vernacular poetry. The story of Caedmon and a prose summary of his Hymn, together with a note on the translation, appear in the Latin versions of […]
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by Roberta Magnani, Swansea University Figure 1: a gold belt plaque depicting Scythians resting under a tree with their horses. This artefact demonstrates the Scythians’ sartorial sophistication and the importance of horse riding to their everyday life. From the exhibition at the British Museum, photographs (c) Roberta Magnani. At the beginning of The Knight’s […]
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MARGERY KEMPE STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD 5th -7th April 2018 We are grateful for the support of: The John Fell Fund, Oxford University University College, Oxford Society for Medieval Languages and Literatures Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship THURSDAY 5TH APRIL 09.30-10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00-10.15 Welcome and opening remarks 10.15-11.15 Plenary 1: Professor […]
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By Kate Travers, New York University. BnF Fr. 854, also known as Occitan Chansonnier I, taken from f.125r. (Source: Gallica) Medieval lyric poetry, a genre used throughout western Europe that often focused on love and erotic desire, is often imagined to be a genre of lovelorn poets petitioning for favours from silent, unforgiving ladies. For those […]
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by Emily Butler, John Carroll University In Anglo-Saxon England, the eleventh century was a time of great upheaval and political turmoil, with serious Viking raids, followed by a Danish conquest first in 1013 and more definitively in 1016, then the more famous Norman Conquest of 1066. One of the most important figures in the first […]
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