Cambridge Medieval French Seminar Series

2023-2024

All are warmly invited to this regular term-time seminar, held on Wednesdays between 5 and 6.30. The Lent term seminars will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge in the Garden Room. The Easter term seminars will take place at Murray Edwards College in the Council Room. All seminars are in-person; unfortunately, we cannot offer a hybrid option this year.

Wednesday 18th October 2023: Giulia Boitani (University of Cambridge)

Arthurian Trees: Galahad’s ‘lineage’ in the Queste del Saint Graal

Wednesday 1st November 2023: Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan)

Medieval French Echos

Wednesday 31st January 2024: Hannah Weaver (Columbia University)

Saint Brendan through the Kaleidoscope

Wednesday 28th February 2024: Melek Karatas (University of Bristol)

‘Ne sai, se sui je en Feminie’: Imag(in)ing Women in the Pèlerinage de vie humaine

Wednesday 8th May 2024: Helen Swift – (University of Oxford)

‘Et par cest example': the ethics of exemplarity in late-medieval poetry

Wednesday 22nd May 2024: Mary Franklin-Brown (University of Cambridge)

Knights, Pawns, and Troubadours

If you would like to join our mailing list, please email the convenor of the seminar, Emily Kate Price (ekp26@cam.ac.uk).The seminars in May will be convened by Dr Miranda Griffin (mhg11@cam.ac.uk)