Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe is a text that earned him the title of “the first technical writer in English” (Basquin 1981: 19). The treatise is assumed to have been written with great clarity, which is consistent with the assumed reader being a boy of the “tendre age of .x. yer.” Hence, the presence of repetitions, similes, explication, […]
Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl.
Another lecture in the series of meetings on Geoffrey Chaucer organised by the Bodleian Library will take place on Wednesday, 24 April 2024 at 14:00 GMT (15:00 CET). During the talk entitled “Exhibiting Chaucer”, Marion Turner (JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall) will discuss the current exhibition Chaucer Here and Now. Registration for the meeting is still open: Bodleian Library events.
A webinar on the themes of Chaucer Here and Now will take place on Thursday 14 March 2024 at 5pm–6pm GMT (6pm-7pm CET) via Zoom. Professor Marion Turner will talk about manuscripts and printed books from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first and discuss some of the ways in which readers of Chaucer have responded to and reimagined Chaucer’s works. The webinar will feature some of the Bodleian’s treasures shown under the visualiser. This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free, and booking is required via Bodleian Library events.