Please join us for the third seminar of the academic year:
Literature and Law
in some Medieval Narratives
Professor Elizabeth Archibald
Durham University
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Wednesday, 21st November2012
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Department of English Studies, Hallgarth House Seminar Room
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Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University
ABSTRACT
Many medieval narratives
include a legal scene, suggesting that readers/audiences were keenly
interested in matters of justice and legal procedure. Often such scenes
are connected to adulterous love affairs or to treason, or to both
combined, but hunting is also a significant concern. In this talk I will
discuss texts including Marie de France’s Lanval and the Middle English
version Sir Launfal; the Latin Arthurian romance Historia Meriadoci;
the Wife of Bath’s Tale and some analogues; and Malory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Archibald is
Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society and Professor of English; she arrived
in Durham from Bristol in September 2012. Her research is
interdisciplinary and focuses on reception, particularly in relation to
the classical tradition and medieval romance (especially the Arthurian
legend); she is also very interested in the interface between literature
and social history. Her publications include Apollonius of Tyre:
Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations (1991); A Companion to
Malory (1996), co-edited with A.S.G. Edwards; Incest and the Medieval
Imagination (2001); and The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend
(2009), co-edited with Ad Putter. She is currently working on a study
of baths and bathing in the Middle Ages, and co-editing collections of
essays on the reception of the Troy story, and on Shakespeare and the
Middle Ages. She is the co-editor of the journal Arthurian Literature.
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