Medieval History
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces two events with
Stephen J. Harris
(University of Massachusetts)
Monday April 20
at Rutgers University
6.00 pm Lecture
Murray Hall, Room 302
"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"
Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its
tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have
known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English
shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or
the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and
landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence,
post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon
Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of
identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their
abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did
their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful?if it did at all? And
if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like?
In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas
of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old
English poetry.
***
followed by:
Tuesday April 21
Workshop at Columbia University
First Workshop: "Beautiful Materialities"
Apr 21, 1pm - 2.30 pm 401 Hamilton
Second Workshop: "Community"
April 21, 4.10 pm - 5.30 pm 501 Int'l Affairs building (CIPA)
Please send an email to [email protected] to register.
Reading materials will be made available in advance to those who
register in advance.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
[email protected]
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York
University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of
English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of English,
Rutgers University.
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Medieval History
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces two events with
Stephen J. Harris
(University of Massachusetts)
Monday April 20
at Rutgers University
6.00 pm Lecture
Murray Hall, Room 302
"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"
Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its
tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have
known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English
shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or
the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and
landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence,
post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon
Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of
identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their
abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did
their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful?if it did at all? And
if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like?
In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas
of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old
English poetry.
***
followed by:
Tuesday April 21
Workshop at Columbia University
First Workshop: "Beautiful Materialities"
Apr 21, 1pm - 2.30 pm 401 Hamilton
Second Workshop: "Community"
April 21, 4.10 pm - 5.30 pm 501 Int'l Affairs building (CIPA)
Please send an email to [email protected] to register.
Reading materials will be made available in advance to those who
register in advance.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
***
To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:
[email protected]
For further updates and future talks, please check our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc
ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York
University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of
English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of English,
Rutgers University.
- Upcoming Assc Event
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquiumannouncesa lecture and seminar *Joshua Davies* *(KIng's College, The University of London)* ??Visions...
- The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium Reminder: Please register by January 31st, using the attached form, for: The Fifth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference "Landscape, Space, and Place in Anglo-Saxon England" * * University of Connecticut Friday, February...
- About Time
nglo-Saxon Futures 2: About Time The Second International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium and King's College London May 23 & 24, 2008 Council Room, Strand At King's College London A 2 day international workshop of seminars and roundtables...
- Anglo Saxon Studies Group At Columbia
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium > Spring Semester Upcoming Events> > > April 3 > Tuesday > > Clare Lees (King's College, University of London) > "Gender Indifference? Women, Sexuality and Anglo-Saxon Studies" > > at Columbia University > Ware Lounge,...
- Drew Jones Lecture
This is one I wish I could have gone to. Christopher Jones is one of the best. But I missed it. The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium is pleased to announce: Christopher Jones (Ohio State University) "Monastic Reform and Eremitic Sanctity in Late Anglo-Saxon...