Programme
Narrating history across languages in medieval Europe
Council Room (K2.29), Strand Campus, King's College London
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Friday 14 June
9.30am Registration and coffee
9.45am Introduction
10.00am Simon Gaunt (King’s College London), ‘Babel and the language(s) of universal history in the Middle Ages’
11.00am Coffee
11.30am Mark Chinca (University of Cambridge), ‘Kaiserchronik connections’
12.30pm Lunch
2.00pm Karla Mallette (Ann Arbor), ‘Furtuna fallenti: Sicilian vernacular history as affective history’
3.00pm Serena Ferente (King’s College London), ‘A story from the Genoese Black Sea: Ogdoas and the Wandering Jew’
6.00pm Buffet and reception at the British Library Knowledge Centre
Plenary lecture (British Library Knowledge Centre)
7.30pm Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews), ‘The languages of history in the Middle Ages’
London, British Library, Royal 20 D I, f. 154r. Reproduced with the permission of the British Library Board.
Saturday 15 June
10.00am Coffee
10.30am Jill Ross (University of Toronto), ‘Language, Culture and Power in Guillem de Torroella’s La Faula’
11.30am Coffee
12.00pm Julian Weiss (King’s College London), ‘The French Connection: Cultural Colonization and the Mocedades de Rodrigo’
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto (University of Southern Denmark / Danish Institute for Advanced Studies), ‘Multilingualism and visual literacy: The development of the illustrated history book (1250-1280)’
3.00pm David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Literature Happens: Where and When’
London, British Library, Royal 20 D I, f. 169r. Reproduced with the permission of the British Library Board.