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LOCATION:Birley Room, Hatfield College 
SUMMARY:Gaillardes escapades: Montaigne's Experience of Beauty
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Professor Mary McKinley, Universit
 y of Virginia who will deliver the next in the IMRS/IAS seminar series &#8
 216;Beauty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’. As he reflects on hi
 s own book's composition in his essay "On vanity," Montaigne recalls passa
 ges from several of the Ancients and exclaims that their gaillardes escapa
 des make them beautiful.   Those two words point to aesthetic values that 
 motivate the Essays and that, Montaigne insists, engage the reader.   The 
 rich lexical scope of gaillardes escapades, both in the Essays and in some
  works of Montaigne's contemporaries, helps us to appreciate one experienc
 e of beauty in sixteenth-century France.
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