Poetry in the Medieval World

This network will run from 2024 to 2025.

Poetry in the Medieval World explores premodern literature from a global perspective, an infrastructure for learning and dialoguing on medieval poetry through a cross-disciplinary approach.

How was poetry produced and transmitted? This is one of the themes which will be discussed together with, for example, reception and the challenges of translations into modern languages, especially into English. We address relevant and intertwined questions about poetry and our understanding of it. The hope is to pave the way for innovative ideas towards a new, choral theory of medieval literature.

Our case study is poetry between c. 600 and c. 1250 CE.

To be involved in the Network and/or for any question, you can write to: ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

To subscribe to the mailing list, please send a blank email to poetrymedievalworld-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk.

You can also follow us on Twitter @PoetryMedieval

Network Leads

Ugo Mondini – British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Studies

Jennifer Guest – Associate Professor of Japanese

Dirk Meyer – Professor of Chinese Philosophy

Jim Mallinson – Boden Professor of Sanskrit

Ida Toth – University Research Lecturer in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek and Byzantine Epigraphy