Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures
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The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
Thank you for sharing, Keith!
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Thank you for sharing, Keith!
We were delighted to have you with us, Rebecca, thank you for your fascinating paper!
July 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We were delighted to have you with us, Rebecca, thank you for your fascinating paper!
The end of Minnis' talk brings our 🌍Global Glossing: Transnational Commentary in the Later Middle Ages🌍 conference to a close!
Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.
Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.
July 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The end of Minnis' talk brings our 🌍Global Glossing: Transnational Commentary in the Later Middle Ages🌍 conference to a close!
Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.
Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.
...'Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition'.
July 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
...'Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition'.
Our final event of the day is the SSMLL Annual Lecture presented by Alastair Minnis (Yale). Minnis' lecture, ‘(Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters', is offering insight into the additions being made to the landmark anthology...
July 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Our final event of the day is the SSMLL Annual Lecture presented by Alastair Minnis (Yale). Minnis' lecture, ‘(Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters', is offering insight into the additions being made to the landmark anthology...
During the AGM, President Alastair Minnis congratulated the winner of the 2025 Medium Aevum Essay Prize, Chenyun Zhu (Nanjing University) for their essay 'The Curse and the Seal: Fertility Myth in the Nine Herbs Charm'. We are delighted to have Chenyun join us at the conference.
July 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
During the AGM, President Alastair Minnis congratulated the winner of the 2025 Medium Aevum Essay Prize, Chenyun Zhu (Nanjing University) for their essay 'The Curse and the Seal: Fertility Myth in the Nine Herbs Charm'. We are delighted to have Chenyun join us at the conference.
Lucy Turton, one of SSMLL's graduate observers and a current doctoral student at St Andrews now fields questions, comments and discussion with the audience and our Session III speakers.
July 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Lucy Turton, one of SSMLL's graduate observers and a current doctoral student at St Andrews now fields questions, comments and discussion with the audience and our Session III speakers.
Our next speaker for Panel III is Ian Johnson (St Andrews) with his paper ‘The Prose Self-Commentary in John Walton’s Boethius’. Johnson argues that Walton draws on Chaucer's Boece and relies on Trevet's Latin commentary, but also refracts his own work through his 'self-commentary'.
July 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Our next speaker for Panel III is Ian Johnson (St Andrews) with his paper ‘The Prose Self-Commentary in John Walton’s Boethius’. Johnson argues that Walton draws on Chaucer's Boece and relies on Trevet's Latin commentary, but also refracts his own work through his 'self-commentary'.
Session III has now begun with Raphaela Rohrhofer's (St Andrews) paper ‘Julian of Norwich’s Kenotic Auto-Commentary’. Rohrhofer's explains how contemplative language is employed and functions differently from ordinary language, and she focusses closely on Julian's use of 'drede'.
July 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Session III has now begun with Raphaela Rohrhofer's (St Andrews) paper ‘Julian of Norwich’s Kenotic Auto-Commentary’. Rohrhofer's explains how contemplative language is employed and functions differently from ordinary language, and she focusses closely on Julian's use of 'drede'.