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Professor Raluca Radulescu (Bangor University): ‘What do we need to know about the Prose Brut tradition and why? A medieval best-seller and modern scholarly silence’
Professor Raluca Radulescu (Bangor University): ‘What do we need to know about the Prose Brut tradition and why? A medieval best-seller and modern scholarly silence’
This talk will focus on the appeal of the Prose Brut tradition in the Middle Ages with a view to examining the relationship between the large number of manuscripts it survives in (over 200) and relatively little scholarly interest from modern scholars. It takes a broad view of how the text was presented to modern […]
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Professor James Walvin (University of York): ‘The Black Presence in Transatlantic Slavery Archives’
Professor James Walvin (University of York): ‘The Black Presence in Transatlantic Slavery Archives’
*Please note change of speaker* The distinguished social historian James Walvin, author of many books on slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world, will discuss ‘The Black Presence in Transatlantic Slavery Archives’ with Desirée Baptiste, author of a new play, Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself (2023), inspired by a document […]
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Joanna Story, University of Leicester: ‘Insular Manuscripts – some new approaches to some old questions.’
Joanna Story, University of Leicester: ‘Insular Manuscripts – some new approaches to some old questions.’
More than 600 manuscripts survive that were written between c. 600–850 in the Irish or Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, or in continental monasteries founded by missionaries from the islands of Britain or Ireland in the seventh or eighth centuries. Defined by characteristic script, as well as decoration, these manuscripts are graphic testimony to the contribution of the […]
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Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself (2023), staged reading.
Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself (2023), staged reading.
A new play inspired by a rare 1723 letter from an anonymous enslaved Virginian to the ‘Lord arch Bishop of London’, Incidents (2023) draws on archival research and historical imagination to bring to light, 300 years after a bold act of resistance, the life of a ‘poore’ parishioner of the Church of England, author of […]
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