Poetry, Power, Literacy, and the Emergence of Vernacular Literatures

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Image Credit: Franz Ludwig Catel, First Steps (1820s) ©Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Monday 16 June 2025, 9am - 6.30pm

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building and online

All welcome

Register via Eventbrite for online attendance only.

Online registration closes 2 hours before the start of the event. You will be sent the joining link within 24 hours of the event, 2 hours before and once again 15 minutes before the event starts.

 

Please find full programme here.

 

Convenors: Ugo Mondini (Exeter College – Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages), Michael Angerer (Corpus Christi College – Faculty of History).

 

The 2025 workshop of the TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World investigates how literature changes and how emerging written languages, styles, and narratives emerge across diverse geographical and cultural contexts. Through the example of poetry, the workshop seeks to uncover shared patterns and distinct trajectories in the development of vernacular literatures. It considers how authors drew on, translated, or adapted models from local and transregional literary traditions to accept, propose, or reshape emerging ways of producing literature.

 

The workshop is part of the activities of the TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World.

 

For any further information, please contact Ugo Mondini at ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

 


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