Humanities Research Centre
2015-16 Programme
Seminars begin at 5pm in Ramphal Building, R3.25,
unless otherwise stated.
Everyone welcome!
~ SPRING TERM ~
20th Jan.
3rd Feb.
10th Feb.
2nd Mar.
9th Mar.
Prof Thorlac Turville-Petre (Nottingham), ‘Description in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
Reading Group
Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro (Warwick), ‘Imperial Mission
Accomplished!
The Late Sixteenth-Century Representation of the Fourth
Crusade in the Doge’s Palace, Venice’
Reading Group
Prof Simon Gilson (Warwick), ‘Dante's Doctrine:
Knowledge and Learning in the Commedia’
~ SUMMER TERM ~
11th May
8th June
15th June
18th July
Dr Daniel McCann (Oxford), ‘Medicine of Words: Purgative
Reading in Richard Rolle's Meditation on the Passion A’
Merryn Everitt (Warwick), ‘Textual Communities, Spiritual
Translation, and Religious Freedom in the Occitan Life of
Barlaam and Josaphat’
Workshop on Cannibalism in Medieval Literature
Postgraduate Research day on ‘Medieval Materiality’,
Guest Speaker: Prof Catherine Brown (Michigan)
Contacts
Liam Lewis: l.g.lewis@warwick.ac.uk
Merryn Everitt: m.f.g.everitt@warwick.ac.uk
@medievalwarwick