All events take place in Barnard Hall, room 405, at 6.10pm.

Thursday, 2/7. SPEAKER SERIES. Talk by Dr. Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham University)

Thursday, 2/21. Workshop: Ruen-chuan Ma’s dissertation chapter

Tuesday, 3/12. SPEAKER SERIES. Talk by Professor Elizabeth Tyler (University of York)

Thursday, 3/14. Workshop: Aled Robert’s MA thesis

Thursday, 3/28. Workshop: Eugene Petracca’s MA thesis

Thursday, 4/11. Workshop. Emma Bérat’s Mock Oral

Wednesday, 4/17. Discussion with Professors Mark Ormrod and Helen Fulton (University of York)

Thursday, 5/2. Planning meeting for 2013-2014

2012-13 Speakers Series

February 7 at 6pm in Barnard 405: Dr. Thomas O’Donnell, Fordham University.

The Form of Anglo-Norman Monastic Community in Orderic Vitalis 

The rhetorical diversity and untidy narrative of Orderic Vitalis’ sprawling Ecclesiastical History are well known.  Combined with Orderic’s eagerness to frame parts of his work with details of his own biography, the hodgepodge of the Ecclesiastical History has led scholars to view the work as an expression of Orderic’s own complex personal and national identity.  In this paper I will explore Orderic’s developing aesthetics instead as part of late eleventh- and early twelfth-century practices for overcoming discordant discourses of identity within monastic communities.  My conclusion will consider how the dynamic, multivocal form of the Ecclesiastical History expresses a creative view of history-writing and impinges on the lived experience of communal life at Saint-Evroul.