The Values of French

The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages. ERC Advanced Grant (no. 670726) at King's College London

Events 2016

22 November 2016

Simon Gaunt, Romancing the Truth: Vernacular History and the Origin of Fiction

French Department Lecture

La Maison Française 
New York University 

18-19 November 2016

Language in Motion: Editing, Translating and Adapting Theoretical Writing on Language

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Simon Gaunt, 'Locating the Text in Motion: Why Edit Manuscripts Rather than Texts?'

Simone Ventura, 'The Scribe as Linguist in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’s Textual Tradition'


9-10 November 2016

L'Europe des récits en langue d'oïl: Tradition textuelle et histoire littéraire des genres narratifs en ancien français

Hannah Morcos and Maria Teresa Rachetta will be taking part in this colloquium at the Université de Liège, coordinated by  Nicola Morato, on behalf of the Département "Transitions", the Belgian branch of the International Courtly Literature Society, the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres and FNRS.

In addition, on the morning of Wednesday 9 November Hannah and Maria Teresa will be leading a workshop ('Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César: composition et tradition manuscrite') organised by Nicola and also supported by the Département "Transitions" and the Belgian branch of the International Courtly Literature Society. 

Liège workshop

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21–27 July 2016

21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association

Simon Gaunt, ‘Can comparative literature be monolingual? French as a supralocal language in the Middle Ages’

Simone Ventura, ‘Translation as Palimpsest’

30 June – 2 July, 2016

Theorizing Medieval European Literatures

Huntingdon Room, King’s Manor, University of York

Simon Gaunt, 'Europe: The View from Elsewhere'

11 May 2016

Simon Gaunt, 'Manuscripts as Agents: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César'
Institut für deutsche Literatur
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

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Royal MS 20 D I Wheel of Fortune-f.163v

Miniature of the Wheel of Fortune, from London, British Library, Royal 20 D I, f. 168v. Reproduced with the permission of the British Library Board.