TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World

University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

Events this person is organising:

16:30 - Introducing Medieval Japanese Poetic Forms: Sugawara no Michizane’s Poetry
Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford)
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

16:30 - The Wakan Rōeishū (Japanese and Chinese-Style Chanting Collection, c. 1000): Sound and Manuscript
Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford)
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

16:30 - Title TBC
Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford)
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

09:45 - Binding the World, Withholding Life: Poetry Books in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Marisa Galvez (Stanford University), Niels Gaul (Edinburgh), Marlé Hammond (SOAS), Adriano Russo (École française de Rome)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

16:30 - Light without Sun or Moon, The poetry of Kabīr
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

16:30 - One’s Own Eye Cannot Be Seen. The Poetry of Bihari
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

17:00 - Poetic Frames in Early Medieval Manuscripts: Forms and Functions
Bernhard Hollick (Postdoctoral Researcher, IAKH – University of Oslo)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

16:30 - Poetry from India
Various Speakers
The Medieval Poetry Reading Group

17:00 - Magic and Language in Images from the Alexander Romance
Earnestine Qiu (Princeton University)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

17:00 - Building Nations on the Page. Old English Verse Layout in the Ninth and Nineteenth Centuries
Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

17:00 - Thinking Unthinkable Hybrids. A Revaluation of Encyclopedic Poetry
Ramunė Markevičiūtė (Freie Universität Berlin)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

17:00 - Late Byzantine Romance. On the Wings of Repetition
Dr Zuzana Dzurillová (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Talks on Medieval Poetry

08:45 - Poetry, Power, Literacy, and the Emergence of Vernacular Literatures
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford), Prof. Wiebke Denecke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Thibaut D'Hubert (University of Chicago), Prof. Jane Gilbert (University College London), Prof. Martin Orwin (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Dr Alberto Ravani (Princeton University), Prof. Elizabeth Tyler (University of York)
Talks on Medieval Poetry