Wednesday the 10th of February, at 3:00 p.m., in Buchanan Tower 826:
“La Poésie multilingue au Moyen Âge”
(in French, within the Department’s French Research Seminar)
Image c/o Wikimedia Commons: Allegorical copper engraving by F. Bleyswyk on the title page of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, ed. by Pieter Burman(n) the Elder, Leiden 1720. Full title: M. Fabii Quinc[!]tiliani de institutione oratoria libri duodecim, cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum, summa cura recogniti et emendati per Petrum Burmannum. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem de Vivie, MDCCXX. — Left: Athena and owl; right: Mercurius/Hermes, the god of trade and profit, but also of trickery and deceit [and of translators and interpreters]; mediating, centre: a scene of public persuasion/rhetoric…