Is there a link between seeking God and reading and writing literature? Is literature a help or an obstacle in seeking God?
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Michel Zink is Chair of Medieval Literature at the Collège de France. One of the preeminent medievalists of his generation, he has authored groundbreaking books on topics ranging from literary subjectivity in the medieval period to a study of our changing historiographical approaches to medieval literature and culture. He is the author of La Subjectivité littéraire autour du siècle de saint Louis (1985, trans. 1999), Le Moyen Âge et ses chansons ou un passé en trompe-l’oeil (1996, trans. 1998), and Poésie et conversion au Moyen Âge (2004).
The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
Lecture by Michel Zink
Given at the Lumen Christi Institute, University of Chicago on March 5, 2009
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Michel Zink is Chair of Medieval Literature at the Collège de France. One of the preeminent medievalists of his generation, he has authored groundbreaking books on topics ranging from literary subjectivity in the medieval period to a study of our changing historiographical approaches to medieval literature and culture. He is the author of La Subjectivité littéraire autour du siècle de saint Louis (1985, trans. 1999), Le Moyen Âge et ses chansons ou un passé en trompe-l’oeil (1996, trans. 1998), and Poésie et conversion au Moyen Âge (2004).
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