The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
Room SLB/118, Spring Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Event details
York Medieval Lecture
In the York Medieval Lecture, Kathy Lavezzo 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.
A wine reception will be held prior to the lecture in SLB/006 from 5:30-6:30pm. All welcome!
About the speaker
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).
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible
Hearing loop
Contact
cms-office@york.ac.uk