TALK: Writing History and Lyric in Medieval England
Ralph Hanna (Oxford University) and Seth Lerer (Stanford University)
Friday, April 11 / 3 PM
2635 South Hall
Writing History and Lyric in Medieval England will showcase two stars of Medieval Studies, both of whom have been major contributors to our knowledge concerning the production, circulation, and reception of texts in medieval England. Ralph Hanna, formerly professor for 32 years at UC Riverside, now Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College at Oxford University, will be speaking on an early fourteenth-century, Anglo-Norman text, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which narrates Fulk III's revolt against King John in 1201-03, discussing the text's somewhat problematic and yet typical combination of the romance genre with writing more like what we consider history. Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professor for the Humanities at Stanford and currently Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, will speak on “The English Lyric in a Trilingual World,” demonstrating how attending to the manuscript context of vernacular lyrics corrects our sense of how vernacular lyrics participated in the intellectual culture of late medieval England.
Website: http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/hanna_lerer_s08.html
Sponsored by: Medieval Studies, the Department of History, and the IHC
