Language, Literature, History, Culture, Art and Archaeology of the Byzantine World
Elected 1976
Medieval French literature & manuscripts, particularly the 'Roman de la Rose', courtly allegory & prose romance.
Medieval literary theory and the psychology of literary response; poetic identity in the Middle Ages; Nietzschean slow reading; medieval religious writing ("vernacular theology"); Syon Abbey; history of the book
Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence