Event Archive
This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
Some of our public events are recorded and are available as podcasts via our Research English At Durham blog.
The Wisdom of Some Short Poems in the Exeter Book
The inaugural seminar of the new series Mothertongues? Gender, Ideology and the Vernacular Languages in Medieval Culture.
Professor Stanley was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1977 until his retirement in 1991, and is one of the most important medieval scholars of the 20th (and now the 21st) centuries. Taught by both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford, he has made vital contributions to Old and Middle English studies from the 1950s to the present day, particularly his work on Beowulf and The Owl and the Nightingale. His paper on Tuesday, ‘The Wisdom of Some Short Poems in the Exeter Book’, discusses some of the best-known Old English poetic works, but will be extremely interesting for non-specialists as well.
Contact venetia.r.bridges@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)