Global Medieval Sourcebook | United States

Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 6:00 PM. Location: Zoom How did medieval people think about love, death, and their own place in history? What did they think was funny? These are some of the questions explored by our project, which brings together stories, poems, jokes and other texts from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Americas. In this lecture, we introduce texts that have never been translated into English before. We also talk about how new technologies can be harnessed to bring research to new audiences, and about the necessity, and challenges, of presenting a global view of the Middle Ages. About the Speakers Kathryn Starkey is Director of the Global Medieval Sourcebook and Professor of German in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University. Her primary research interests are medieval and early modern German literature and culture with an emphasis on visuality, material culture, language, poetics, and manuscript studies. She is the author of Reading the Medieval Book: Wor...