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SUMMARY:"Chaucer’s ‘loveris maladye / Of Heroes\,’ Avicenna’s Treatise on Love\, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love"
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores Chaucer’s depictions of love alongside Avicenna’s Treatise on Love and related Arabic medical and philosophical texts that circulated in Latin. It explores how an Arabic-Islamic metaphysics of love shaped by Aristotelian\, Neoplatonic\, and Sufi thought can reshape our understanding of fin’amors in Middle English poetry. Rather than simply tracing “influence\,” I ask how we might recognize the presence of Arabic-Islamic ideas of love in Chaucer\, in ways that attend to and are critical of colonial models of ‘sources’\, ‘origins’\, and ‘influence’. This occurs in conjunction with Prof. Allison Kanner-Botan’s graduate research seminar “Psychoanalysis and Erotics: Rethinking Desire.” \nShazia Jagot (University of York) is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She holds degrees from Soas\, University of London\, and the University of Leicester\, and has worked in universities and research centres in Jordan\, Denmark\, and the UK. Her research explores literary\, historical\, and cultural interactions between the Islamic world and Europe/England in the Middle Ages. She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph on Chaucer’s Arabic ‘sources’ and a book on Medieval England and the Islamic World. From 2021-2024 she served as an Editor in Chief for the journal\, postmedieval\, currently\, she is a Book Series Editor for Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. \nRegister to attend in Kaplan 348 \nThis talk is sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and co-sponsored by the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literature.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/psychoanalysis-and-erotics-rethinking-desire-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Daniel Hobbins
DESCRIPTION:“The Origins of the Authorial Colophon in the Latin West” \nGuest Speaker: Daniel Hobbins (University of Notre Dame) \nIn the early twelfth century\, a group of translators working in Iberia began supplying their works with colophons as though they were scribes. They simply replaced the date of copy with the date of composition. Modern scholarship has studied these colophons for their value to the chronology of the translation movement\, without realizing that they represent the beginning of a new authorial practice: the colophon had moved from scribes to authors. The authorial colophon might stand as one of the most important authorial innovations of the high middle ages. Yet scholars have never paused to consider its novelty. This paper proposes a chronology for its first appearance. We find the earliest authorial colophons in the Iberian translators\, Plato of Tivoli and John of Seville\, who imitated the colophons in the Arabic works that they were translating. As we move later in time\, we encounter a different world of writing. By the twelfth century\, more authors were acting as their own scribes. As authors wrote their own works by hand\, they unconsciously absorbed the colophon into their own written practice. In so doing\, they repeated the patterns they found in scribal colophons. The case of Frère Angier may illustrate this development. By taking time to record the facts of publication\, such authors were emphasizing their own historically specific contribution. Yet they did so without any intent to innovate or any awareness of doing so. Authors found a way to make ambitious claims in the most conservative way possible. \n \nDaniel Hobbins is a historian of high and late medieval Europe\, with a particular interest in the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of the period from 1200 to 1500. Under this broad heading\, his research has focused on authorship\, manuscript culture\, textual transmission\, the Carthusian order\, and fifteenth-century France. \nHis book Authorship and Publicity before Print (2009) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing a book on the history and meaning of the authorial colophon. \nRSVP to attend in Royce 314\nRSVP to attend via ZOOM \n\nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. The topics explored in past lectures were book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-daniel-hobbins/
CATEGORIES:Rouse History of the Book Annual Lecture
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SUMMARY: “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication”
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Hannah Weaver (Columbia University) \nOn the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid\, Chrétien de Troyes\, and Chaucer\, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. \nHannah Weaver is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of articles on Latin vernacularity\, genre\, manuscript revisions\, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\, as well as the monograph Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell 2024). She is currently working on a new book about textiles and the medieval literary archive. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-talk-with-hannah-weaver/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar with Jordan Pickett
DESCRIPTION:Late Antique eXcursus (LAX) is a new seminar series at UCLA sponsored by the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.\n\n\nThe series\, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter\, is designed to support graduate education\, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California\, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field. Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia) will discuss archaeology\, architecture\, and history.\n\nAccess the readings here\n\n\nRegister to attend at the University Club\, Redwood Room \n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/late-antique-excursus-seminar-by-jordan-pickett/
CATEGORIES:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar
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