The Provocative Fifteenth Century

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Bringing together international leaders in the field of medieval studies, this conference focuses interdisciplinary attention on the recent resurgence of interest in fifteenth-century texts and manuscripts and reshapes the dialogue about this decisive moment in English literary history. This conference was funded by The Huntington's Dorothy Collins Brown Endowment and The Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside.

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Latest episodes from The Provocative Fifteenth Century

The Humanist Pilgrim: Fifteenth-Century English Readers, from Venice to Jerusalem

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 37:38

Anthony Bale lectures in the session entitled, “Displaced Bodies, Readers, and Senses”. Bale is Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Vernacularizing the Aesthetic in the Fifteenth Century

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 49:02

Anke Bernau lectures in the session entitled, “Inventions, Emotions, and Technical Exhilirations”. Bernau is Senior Lecturer In Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

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"Out of this prosis blake": Farming, Feeling and Form in On Husbondrie

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 45:44

Lisa H. Cooper lectures in the session entitled, “Inventions, Emotions, and Technical Exhilirations”. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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By Provocative Means: The Powers of Middle English Prayer Rolls

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 41:58

Shannon Gayk lectures in the session entitled, “Stimulating Rolls, Books, and Bags”. Gayk is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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"Unbokeled is the male": Chaucer and the Makeshift Manuscript

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 45:35

Alexandra Gillespie lectures in the session entitled, “Stimulating Rolls, Books, and Bags”. Gillespie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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Provoking Saints

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2015 45:36

Catherine Sanok lectures in the session entitled, “Displaced Bodies, Readers, and Senses”. Sanok is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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Criminal Form

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 38:18

Daniel Wakelin lectures in the session entitled, “Experimentation, Correction, and Wrongdoing”. Wakelin is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

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Performance and Performativity: Anti-Theater around and in Fifteenth-Century Drama

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 46:38

James Simpson lectures in the second session entitled, “Unexpected and Estranged Aesthetics”. Simpson is Professor of English at Harvard University.

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The Provocations of Orthodoxy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 46:38

Jessica Brantley lectures in the second session entitled, “Unexpected and Estranged Aesthetics”. Brantley is Professor of English & Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University.

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Writing and the Risk of Error

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 46:09

Daniel Wakelin lectures in the session entitled, “Experimentation, Correction, and Wrongdoing”. Wakelin is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

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Troy Book Misbehaving

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 46:22

Robert Meyer-Lee lectures in the first session,“Provoking Patrons and Misbehaving Memorials”. Meyer-Lee is Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College / Indiana University, South Bend.

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"Conveied by resoun": Verse-Form, Patronage, and Provocation in the Fifteenth Century

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 35:27

Jenni Nuttall lectures in the first session entitled,“Provoking Patrons and Misbehaving Memorials”. Nuttal is Fellow by Special Election in English, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

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Welcoming Remarks by Steve Hindle

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 4:48

Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

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Opening Remarks by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 7:55

Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown deliver the opening remarks to the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

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Closing Remarks by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2015 5:50

Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown deliver the closing remarks of the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

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