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Professor Annette Volfing FBA

Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Medieval studies
Sections
Medieval Studies
Website
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/volfing

Current post

Professor of Medieval German Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford

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Medieval history: narrative sources, primarily in north-western Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries, as evidence for the perceptions and values that shaped war and politics.

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