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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

by Medievalists.net
December 7, 2023

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Lecture by Nicholas Perkins

Given at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, on November 22, 2023

Overview: We welcome Nicholas Perkins, Professor of Medieval Literature and Fellow of St Hughes College to discuss The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England. This book places medieval narratives in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and gift exchange.

According to a review, “Nicholas Perkins’s book is itself a gift, in which the elusive phenomenon of the gifted object has found its ideal, answering intelligence: lucidly scrupulous, attuned as much to the book as a gift as to the gift in books and ready to draw as much on anthropology as on the material of the history of the book. Like all gifts it’s radiant.”

Professor Perkins curated the Gifts and Books Exhibition which ran from June to October at the Weston Library in Oxford, and will also discuss the opportunities that the exhibition gave to engage a broad audience with his research. Joining Professor Perkins was an expert panel including Professor Helen Swift (Medieval French Studies, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages) and Dr Lucy Brookes (Fitzjames Research Fellow, Medieval English Language and Literature) who delighted a rapt audience with a wide-ranging discussion on The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England.

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