Parlement of Foules

medieval book club

The Medieval Book Club is meeting during Hilary Term 2018 to look at Medieval Creatures. This week is on satire - Chaucer, Parlement of Foules.

Medieval Book Club is a weekly gathering of students in which medieval texts are read and discussed, offering sanctuary from 'dreary modern books.' Our inaugural theme will be Medieval Creatures and we will read a range of texts in translation from bestiaries to fables and philosophy to poems.

For more information and to give us an idea of interest, feel free to get in touch with any of use:

Alex Peplow - alex.peplow@merton.ox.ac.uk

Audrey Southgate - audrey.southgate@merton.ox.ac.uk

Henry Tann - henry.tann@balliol.ox.ac.uk

 

Oxford Medieval Studies

Audience: Open to all