Date/Time
Date(s) - 12 Mar 2015
4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Hinds Library
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Princeton English department’s medieval colloquium
Professor Mark Miller (The University of Chicago), “Sin and Structure in Piers Plowman: Apocalypse, Teleology, Demand.”
This paper is a version of a chapter from Prof. Miller’s forthcoming book The Unredemptive Middle Ages and will be made available to attendees later this week. In this project, Prof. Miller investigates the psychology and ideology of guilt, shame and pollution in the late middle ages and attendant theories of utopian sociality. The book includes chapters on Piers Plowman, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the works of the Gawain poet, and hagiographical and mystical writings.
Professor Miller’s research in late-medieval culture is situated conceptually in the intersections of psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory with ethics, theory of action and philosophical psychology. His first book is called Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge UP, 2004).
A reception and dinner will follow the talk. Please email or call if you plan to attend, or if you have any questions:
Tacy Stephens