Why should medievalists care about a fragmentary 1921 sketch by Walter Benjamin bearing the grandiose title “Capitalism as Religion”?  

This talk by George Edmondson (Dartmouth College) will focus on the two aspects of Benjamin’s allusive sketch with the most direct bearing on the discipline of medieval studies and will explore disciplinary implications through a reading of Chaucer’s Pardoner.

George Edmondson is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College

This event is free to attend, please register your interest.