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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The Egg lecture theatre, University of Bergen Three and a half years ago I started my PhD in medieval literature at the University of Surrey in Guildford. A year later, in 2015, my PhD supervisor, Professor Diane Watt began leading an international network of researchers on the Leverhulme Trust Project, ‘Women’s Literary Culture & the […]
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Royal 14 E III f. 125v. Source: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=54938 Within the landscape of medieval literature, Old French Arthurian romance provides a rich cast of women as subjects. The works of Chrétien de Troyes give us Guinevere, Enide, Fenice, Laudine, and Lunete. These are characters with developed personalities who frequently drive the plot of the romances […]
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