Department of French

Medieval French Seminars

Programme 2012/2013

Michaelmas Term 2012

• 11 October 2012
  Prof. Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
  The fall of Troy and the specularity of violence in the Francophone court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples (1309-43).
• 25 October 2012
  Dr Natalia Petrovska (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
  Re-writing geography: L'Image du Monde and Imago Mundi.
• 8 November 2012
  Emma Goodwin (Merton College, Oxford)
  Where is 'France' and who belongs there? Ambiguous locations and labels in La Chanson d'Antioche.
• 22 November 2012
  Dr Thomas Hinton (Durham University)
  'A man may write of love and not be in love': Authenticity in thirteenth-century French and Occitan literature.

Lent Term 2013

• 24 January 2013
  Dr Philipp Jeserich (Freie Universität, Berlin)
  Cognitive narratology and the alterity of the Middle Ages: The case of Erec et Enide.
• 7 February 2013
  Victoria Turner (University of Warwick)
  Of abstract places and nonsense geographies: Torelore, Cocagne and the experience of space.
• 21 February 2013
  Camilla Barker (King's College London)
  Women's desire: Feminine voices in the Lais of Marie de France.
• 7 March 2013
  Dr Eliza Zingesser (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
  French troubadours: Assimilating Occitan literature in medieval France.

Easter Term 2013

• 25 April 2013
  Prof. Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)
  Title to be confirmed.

• 23 May 2013
  Prof. Elizabeth Archibald (Durham University)
  Baths and bathing in medieval literature and society.

All meetings will start at 8:00 pm and take place in the Old Common Room, St Catharine's College. Papers of approximately 20-50 minutes will be followed by discussion. Drinks are served. All are welcome.

For further information please contact Dr Miranda Griffin (St Catharine's College) mhg11@cam.ac.uk