POSTPONED! The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
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POSTPONED! This lecture has been postponed. We hope to announce a new date soon.
Dr. Kathy Lavezzo is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Lavezzo has a longstanding interest in problems of race and identity, hailing back to her edited volume Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minnesota, 2004) and continuing with her books Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000–1534 (Cornell, 2006) and The Unaccommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton (Cornell, 2016).
In the York Medieval Lecture, she will draw on her new book, Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem (Fordham, 2025). Lavezzo will describe the negative scholarly feelings her project embraces and discuss the role of modernity and affect in work on the Middle Ages by major white historians.
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A wine reception will be held prior to the lecture in SLB/006 from 5:30-6:30pm. All welcome!
This lecture will be recorded, which we hope to upload to the Centre for Medieval Studies Youtube Channel shortly after the lecture.