On Thursday, the 13th of November, MEMORI will welcome Professor Helen Cooper of the University of Cambridge, who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Shakespeare’s Medieval Reading’.
5:15 pm, John Percival Building Rm. 2.48
Readings:
Suggested topics for discussion:
Bibliography:
Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, 2nd edn. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 15-22
Mirk, John, ‘De purificacione beate Marie’, John Mirk’s Festial: edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II, I, ed. Susan Powell, EETS O.S. 334 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 55-60
‘Purification of the Virgin’, Gilte Legende, ed. Richard Hamer, EETS O.S. 327 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 161-71
‘St Mary of Egypt’, Gilte Legende, ed. Richard Hamer, EETS O.S. 327 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 254-57
‘Vita sancte Marie Egyptiace’, The Early South English Legendary, or Lives of Saints, MS Laud, 108, in the Bodleian Library, I, ed. Carl Horstmann, EETS O.S. 87 (London: N. Trübner & Co, 1987), pp. 260-71
Mary rescuing a soul from a devil De Brailes Hours, 13th century, BL Add MS 49999, f.40v
On Thursday, the 3rd of April, as part of the Medieval and Early Modern Research Initiative (MEMORI), Dr Ruth Ahnert, Queen Mary University of London, will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Network Theory and the Early Modern Archive’.
For further information, see:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/seminars/index.html
5:15 pm, Rm. 2.48, John Percival Building
On Thursday, the 13th of March, the Medieval and Early Modern Research Initiative will be welcoming Dr Margaret Kean of Oxford University, who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Last Things and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’.
For further information, see:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/seminars/index.html
5:15 pm, Thursday, 13th of March, John Percival Rm. 2.48
Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday, the 12th of March, from 3:10 pm – 5 pm in Rm. 2.50, John Percival Building.
Members of the group expressed a desire to read some of Chaucer’s earlier work, so we will be reading one of his dream visions, The Book of the Duchess, written between 1369 and 1372.
Topics of discussion might include:
· The relationship between the frame and the dream
· The depiction in the dream of the bed chamber
· The extent of the narrator’s naïveté
· The nature of mourning and its relationship to the Black Knight’s narrative of
fin’amor
· The puppy as dream guide
· The significance of the hunt
· Discourse
· Chess
· Birds
As always, all welcome.
Welcome to the website for Cardiff University’s Medieval and Early Modern postgraduate reading group. Here we will be posting upcoming meetings, readings, questions and issues for discussion, along with links to useful resources and events.
The reading group is affiliated with Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Initiative (MEMORI).