PowerPoint presentations

  • Narrating history across languages in medieval Europe (June 2019)

An international conference organised by The Values of French in collaboration with the British Library (14-15 June 2019).

  1. Simon Gaunt, Babel and the language(s) of universal history in the Middle Ages. Download the presentation.
  2. Mark Chinca, Kaiserchronik connections. Download the presentation.
  3. Karla Mallette, Furtuna fallenti: Sicilian vernacular history as affective history. Download the presentation.
  4. Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, Multilingualism and visual literacy: The development of the illustrated history book (1250-1280). Download the presentation.


  • Histoire ancienne Workshop (March 2018)

The Values of French hosted an international workshop at King’s College London (23-24 March 2018) for colleagues working (or who have worked) on the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. For an overview of the workshop, read this blog post by two postgraduate attendees.

  1. Simon Gaunt, The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages. Download the presentation.
  2. Fabio Zinelli, Simone Ventura, La langue de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  3. Maria Teresa Rachetta, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Francesco Montorsi, La compilation de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  4. Nicola Morato, Michelle Szkilnik, Henry Ravenhall, La narration de l'histoire. Download the presentation.
  5. Simon Gaunt, Rosa Rodriguez Porto, Marilynn Desmond, L'Histoire ancienne en performance. Download the presentation.
  6. Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Matteo Cambi, Luca di Sabatino (coordinator: Irene Salvo Garcia), Le remaniement et la représentation de l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.
  7. Anne Rochebouet, Craig Baker, Hannah Morcos, Editer l'Histoire ancienne. Download the presentation.


  • Presentations by the TVOF team

Maria Teresa Rachetta, Lignage e nation. Identità e alterità di gruppo nelle Bibbie in versi antico francesi ('Confini e parole. Identità e alterità nell'epica e nel romanzo medievali', Rome, 21 September 2017). Download the presentation.

TVOF team, The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages (Journal of Romance Studies symposium, London, 6 June 2017). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, TVOF Linguistic Seam (London, KCL, 17 March 2017). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Texte et/ou manuscrit? A propos de l'Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César ('En français hors de France', Paris, 9 December 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Romancing the Truth: Vernacular History and the Origin of Fiction (NYU / Maison Française, New York, 22 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, Do You See What I Mean? The Text, the Manuscript, and the Digital (NYU / Maison Française, New York, 21 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simone Ventura, The Scribe as a Linguist ('Language in Motion' The 51st Conference on Editorial Problems, Pontifical Institute in Medieval Studies, Toronto, 18 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Hannah Morcos and Maria Teresa Rachetta, The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages ('L'Europe des récits en langue d'oïl', Université de Liège, Liège, 9 November 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Can Comparative Literature Be Monolingual? (ICLA, Vienna, 26 July 2016). Download the presentation.

Simon Gaunt, Manuscripts as Agents: the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Humboldt University, Berlin, 11 May 2016). Download the presentation.