Date/Time
Date(s) - 29 Oct 2013
10:00 AM - 2:45 PM
Location
Rutgers University Murray Hall
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ASSC Event: Fiona Griffiths, Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Early Medieval Autobiography and Life Narratives: the Case of Abelard and Heloise
Please join the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, the Rutgers Program in Medieval Studies, and the Rutgers Med/Ren Colloquium in welcoming Fiona Griffiths for a reading group and discussion of Early Medieval Autobiography and Life Narrative: the Case of Abelard and Heloise. Professor Griffiths is the author of The ‘Garden of Delights’: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), and has written numerous essays on gender, historiography, and church history. She is currently completing a book that explores male-female friendships and spiritual relations in the midst of the virulent misogyny that was so characteristic of twelfth-century monastic culture.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013, Rutgers University (CAC)
Bagels and Coffee: 10am, Murray Hall, Room 207
Discussion of Readings: 10:30-12:30, Murray Hall, Room 207
Lunch: 12:30
Readings for discussion (Abelard’s Historia Calamitatem and Personal Letters 1-6, Mary Mclaughlin’s “Abelard as Auobiographer,” and Griffiths’ “Men’s Duty to Provide for Women’s Needs”) are available on the Rutgers’ med/ren sakai site. For access to the site, please e-mail Alyssa Coltrain [email protected] or Lauren McConnell [email protected]. For more information on the event or questions, please contact Stacy Klein at [email protected]
All are welcome!
Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at Rutgers, the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (ASSC), the Rutgers Med/Ren English Colloquium, and the Rutgers’ Graduate Student Association