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Festival of Languages
The Modern Language Centre and King’s Learning and Teaching Forum request the pleasure of your company at the Festival of Languages taking place in the Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus on Monday 31 October at 16.00.
The Modern Language Centre and King’s Learning and Teaching Forum request the pleasure of your company at the Festival of Languages taking place in the Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus on Monday 31 October at 16.00.
Gossip and Nonsense: Excessive Language in Renaissance France
Dr Emily Butterworth is Co-Investigator on this AHRC-funded project, which will examine the more demotic and marginal aspects of Renaissance copiousness. She is collaborating with Dr Hugh Roberts (Exeter), and will work on the strand on gossip and its uses and representations in literature.
Dr Emily Butterworth is Co-Investigator on this AHRC-funded project, which will examine the more demotic and marginal aspects of Renaissance copiousness. She is collaborating with Dr Hugh Roberts (Exeter), and will work on the strand on gossip and its uses and representations in literature.
Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France
Professor Simon Gaunt is the principal investigator in an award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of a grant of £850 652 to the above project, which proposes an investigation of medieval francophone literary culture that will be centred not on France but rather on two important axes of transmission of francophone textual culture: one that goes from England across Flanders, to Burgundy and beyond; another across the Alps to Northern Italy and then out into the Mediterranean and further afield to Cyprus and the Levant.
Professor Simon Gaunt is the principal investigator in an award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of a grant of £850 652 to the above project, which proposes an investigation of medieval francophone literary culture that will be centred not on France but rather on two important axes of transmission of francophone textual culture: one that goes from England across Flanders, to Burgundy and beyond; another across the Alps to Northern Italy and then out into the Mediterranean and further afield to Cyprus and the Levant.
Professor Karen Pratt is involved in a 3-year HERA funded project 'The dynamics of the medieval manuscript: text collections from a European perspective' with collaborators in Utrecht, Vienna and Bristol.
Events
The Research Seminars in the Department of French will feature presentations from invited speakers and postgraduates from the Department. Participants have been asked to think about issues of 'post-canonicity', the extent to which their research implictly or explicitly addresses the different canons operative in French Studies, or operates in a field where the notion of the canon no longer holds sway. The seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm and are open to all.
