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[IN FRENCH]
4:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826

“La légende du cœur mangé”

Références des exemples:

• Lai Guiron: Manuscrit de Cambridge, D.D. 15.12, édition en ligne ABU Textes.
• La vida de Guilhem de Cabestanh: Manuscrits FbIK, éd. J. Boutière et I.M. Cluzel, Biographies des troubadours, Paris, Nizet, 1964, p.530-531.
• Le Roman du Chastelain de Coucy: L’Histoire du châtelain de Coucy et de la dame de Fayel, publié par l’imprimeur G. A. Crapelet, 1829 (Google Books).

Traductions des exemples: Chantal Phan

Autre version française (en prose, 15e s.):

• Le livre des amours du Chastellain de Coucy et de la Dame de Fayel, éd. A. Petit et F. Suard, Presses universitaires de Lille, 1994.

Pour en savoir un peu plus:

• Mariella Di Maio, Le coeur mangé, Histoire d’un thème littéraire du Moyen Age au XIXe siècle, Paris, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005.
• Jean-Jacques Vincensini, « Figure de l’imaginaire et figure du discours. Le motif du ‘coeur mangé’ dans la narration médiévale », in: Le ‘Cuer’ au Moyen Age, Eds. du C.U.E.R.M.A. (Senefiance no. 30), 1991, p.439-459.
• Caroline Walker-Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988.

UBC Department of FHIS, French Research Seminar / Séminaire de recherche en études françaises et francophones: special 2012 “microlectures” series

Une nouveauté cette année : nous avons décidé de nous doter d’une thématique qui nous servira de fil conducteur pour aborder certaines questions fondamentales de méthodologie et pour interroger la relation critique entre le lecteur et le texte. À partir du thème « Les écrivains passent à table », quelques professeurs du département viendront tour à tour présenter une « microlecture » d’un court extrait tiré d’une œuvre littéraire de leur choix (toutes époques et tous genres confondus). Cette lecture sera elle-même le point de départ d’une discussion à laquelle tous seront invités à prendre part. Scène de repas ou d’indigestion, de privations ou d’excès, recette réelle ou fantaisiste inséré dans un récit, poème faisant l’éloge ou la critique de tel ou tel aliment, réflexion alimentaire employée comme métaphore pour parler d’autre chose, éloge du bon goût en littérature et en gastronomie, etc. Tout est a priori matière à analyse. Le thème servira avant tout de prétexte à une lecture qui, suivant l’intention (et l’humeur ?) de chacun, sera tantôt classique ou provoquante, démonstrative ou interrogative. Il s’agira avant tout de montrer comment, à partir d’un même objet, et en suivant différentes approches et différentes méthodes, il est possible d’articuler des discours critiques contrastés, complémentaires ou encore inconciliables.

Further to the first planning meeting earlier today, we are working on a schedule for this term and indeed for the academic year; information will appear here as and when it is confirmed. Although the year is booking up fast, there may still be spaces available for twenty-minute papers and for shorter (five- to ten-minute) work in progress pieces.

This year will also feature weekly informal non-meetings, where there will be no papers: every Friday from 12.00 noon to a little before 1.00 p.m., at least two members of the ERS research cluster will be lunching in the FHIS departmental lounge (Buchanan Tower, 7th floor) and conversing, in a leisurely fashion in between mouthfuls, on Early Romance matters. You are welcome to bring along your lunch and join us. Chronologically-appropriate brown waxed woven cloth bags optional. We can provide water, the services of a kettle, and an assortment of fine teas (c/o O’Brien).

While the idea of eating and conversing sociable company is hardly new, it is hoped that combining congeniality with collegiality and adding in 2012 UBC’s emphases on multi-tasking and outreach may prove fruitful as well as enjoyable and perhaps even therapeutic. It should be stressed that this is a parallel strand to the ERS’s main official scholarly events: a series of “anti-sessions” …

A rough draft of notes from the meeting is here (EverNote shared file). With apologies for the use of Franglais.

You are cordially invited to the ERS cluster’s first meeting of the new academic year:

Thursday the 20th of September
from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
[location T.B.A.: it will be at the UBC Vancouver campus, around about 10 minutes’ walk from the Buchanan / Arts buildings]

Based at the department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies of UBC, we are a research cluster in pre-1800–Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern–Romance languages and literatures (and associated cultures). The cluster is now in its fourth year; it meets approximately every three to four weeks, and also organized last year’s UBC Medieval Workshop.

This will be a short meeting–around an hour long–in which we’ll discuss plans and projects for the year, schedule talks, arrange future meeting times, and generally meet and greet all interested parties. All are welcome: from the FHIS department, other UBC departments and programmes, and all colleagues from neighbouring institutions. It would be wonderful to hear from any scholars whose work touches on the post-Classical pre-Modern period, the geographical areas concerned (including Québec, Acadie, and all of Latin America), and/or the Romance vernaculars (including, for example, French in medieval England). As the ERS cluster is also actively interested in its own name, we also consider the matter of periodization; and its limits, limitations, and questioning. We would be particularly keen to encourage graduate student participation, and to foster dialogue between and amongst academic fields; be that cross- , multi- , or inter-disciplinary.

If you are interested in giving a presentation this academic year or in participating in the ERS cluster in any way, but are unable to attend the meeting due to timetabling conflicts (which are understandable and understood, at this time of year) or because you will be unable to be at UBC that day or, indeed, are nowhere near Vancouver that day! We would of course still like to hear from you; please do contact the cluster convenors (Chantal Phan  or Juliet O’Brien) or indeed any of the other cluster members by email.

See also: post-meeting update.

Department of English Visiting Speaker, Dr. Laura Ashe (Worcester College, Oxford)
‘The ‘Cniht’ and Chivalry: The Formation of Knighthood in English Culture’
Thursday 13th September, 2012. @ 5.15 pm. Buchanan, B 313.

All welcome.
Continue reading Laura Ashe: Thurs. 13 Sept., 2012

Of potential interest to all Medievalists…

Information c/o Courtney Booker (UBC Dept. of History & Chair of UBC Medieval Studies).

The Newman Association of Vancouver invites you to the last talk of the series “Faith and Science” :

Speaker: Professor Gernot Wieland PhD, Department of English, UBC

Title: “Bede: Faith through Science”

Where?
St Marks College 5935 Iona Drive

When?
On Sunday April 1st at 1:00 pm
(following 11:30 Mass at St. Marks and Pancake Breakfast served by the Knights of Columbus).

About the speaker
Gernot Wieland received his primary and secondary education in the German Benedictine schools of Schaeftlarn and Ettal. He came to Canada in 1966 and studied Classics and English at University of Toronto (BA 1971). He went on to complete an MA (1972) and PhD (1976) in Mediaeval Studies at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.

He is the author/editor of six books and has written numerous articles in his primary area of research interest – Anglo-Latin literature (i.e. the Latin literature of the Anglo-Saxons). Prof Wieland is also the Editor of the Journal of Mediaeval Latin.

An engaging speaker, Professor Wieland will speak on the scientific knowledge embedded in Bede’s (673 – 735 A.D.) exegetical works, and may surprise you with Bede’s knowledge and sophistication, and will almost certainly change some of your preconceptions about the time that is often referred to as the “Dark Ages.”

Parking at the College or in the UBC North Parkade

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The Saint Petersburg Bede (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an early surviving illuminated manuscript of Bede’s 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). It was taken to the Russian National Library of Saint Petersburg at the time of the French Revolution. Although not heavily illuminated, it is famous for containing the earliest historiated initial (one containing a picture) in European illumination. The opening three letters of Book 2 of Bede are decorated, to a height of 8 lines of the text, and the opening h contains a bust portrait of a haloed figure carrying a cross and a book. This is probably intended to be St. Gregory the Great, although a much later hand has identified the figure as St. Augustine of Canterbury.

Date: c. 731-746

Source: HistoryofScience.com and Russian National Library, St Petersberg

12:00 noon
Buchanan Tower 826
Marina Lushchenko (FHIS alumna)
“Doon de Mayence et Gaufrey: la chanson de geste tardive (XIVe-XVe siecles) et la formation des cycles epiques”

In conjunction with FREN 360: Introduction to Old French (Prof. Chantal Phan)

(This talk will be in French.)
L’objectif de la présentation est de montrer, en prenant comme exemple le cycle des barons révoltés (autrement dit le cycle de Doon de Mayence), par quels procédés les poètes épiques de la fin du Moyen Âge établissent une filiation entre personnages et chansons initialement disparates afin de créer un cycle épique consacré à l’histoire d’un lignage. L’attention sera portée notamment sur les procédés suivants: la construction, la jonction, l’amplification et le mélange de cycles.

The final preparations for the Medieval Workshop are well underway, and we’re hoping to welcoming many of you here in March (the 16th to 18th).

Full details, the programme, and information on the keynote speakers is all here:
http://ubc2012medieval.wordpress.com

The workshop registration form is now up online:
http://ubc2012medieval.wordpress.com/registration/

Please do pass the news along to colleagues, students, and friends.

Professor Valerie Traub will be visiting UBC on February 9, 2012. She will deliver a lively talk, “Making Sexual Knowledge,” at 4PM in Henry Angus 254 on that afternoon. In it, she plans to share the general contours of her latest project (Making Sexual Knowledge: Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns), focusing especially on obscurity in sexual knowledge and sexual pedagogy, and on the relations between historicism, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory. Please join us for this hour-long event!

Professor Valerie Traub is Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the former Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at Michigan.

Her research concerns gender and sexuality in early modern England. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, which won the best book of 2002 award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Other books include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992) and two co-edited collections: Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (1996) and Gay Shame (2009). Her current projects are entitled Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality, which analyzes the emergence of new discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century anatomical and cartographic illustrations; and Making Sexual Knowledge: Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. She sits on the advisory boards of PMLA, GLQ, and Studies in English Literature. She is the recipient of the John D’Arms Award for graduate mentoring and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.

Funding for Professor’s Traub’s visit has been provided by CSIS, the Department of English, CWAGS, WAGS, Medieval Studies, and the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Arts.

6:00-7:30 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Monika Edinger (FHIS, UBC)
“Ovid’s Narcissus and Echo in 17th-century peninsular theatre: the voice from the distance in Calderón de la Barca’s Eco y Narciso”