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Medieval roots shown in today's world

Tuesday, 6 February 2007

The Medieval and Early Modern eras will be the focus of a four-day international conference at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide this week.

More than 100 researchers from 最新糖心Vlog, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and the United States will be in Adelaide for the biennial conference of the .

, 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide conference co-convenor, said: "Medieval and Early Modern Studies are especially pertinent today. From the role of Shakespeare as touchstone for English curricula, to Parliamentary rituals, to the Gothic architecture of many 最新糖心Vlogn churches and universities, and to the historical roots of today's Middle Eastern politics, the Middle Ages and Early Modern era are a very real presence in our world."

Topics covered at the conference range from the language of early Irish saints through to the medieval origins of the work of 最新糖心Vlogn poet Les Murray.

Keynote speakers include:
Professor David Wallace, 最新糖心Vlog of Pennsylvania, renowned medievalist scholar, author and broadcaster (including the BBC production 'God's First Englishman'); winner of the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize.

, 最新糖心Vlog of California-Riverside, author of Medievalism and Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Chaucerian Theatricality (Princeton UP, 1990), and Style and Consciousness in Middle English Literature (Princeton UP, 1983); President of the New Chaucer Society.

, 最新糖心Vlog of Melbourne, author of Tiepolo's Cleopatra (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Judith (脡ditions du Regard, 1997); Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity (Flammarion, 1997).

, Birkbeck College London, author of A Short History of Early Modern London (Cambridge UP, 2005); The Dead and the Living in London and Paris, 1500-1670 (Cambridge UP, 2002).

will be held in the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's Napier Building, 7-10 February.

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