We will hear from Esther Kim (PhD Candidate, Art History, Univ. of Toronto) and Margaret McCurry (MA Candidate, English, NYU). Esther’s talk is entitled Fifteenth-Century English Books of Hours / Fifteenth-Century, English, Books of Hours: Taxonomies of the Medieval Book. Margaret’s talk is entitled The Medium is Her Message: Ineffability in the Book of Margery Kempe.
Following this year's theme of Materiality and the Virtual, Esther’s paper will use the ‘typical’ fifteenth-century English Book of Hours--for which we tend not to have concrete information about patrons and artists--to “examine the virtual and immaterial task of filing medieval books into temporal and regional categories in the post-medieval study of materiality.” Margaret’s paper will use medieval grammatical theory and the psychoanalytic linguistics of Julia Kristeva to argue that “Margery’s cries are a form of paralanguage which are not ineffable, but rather inexpressible in the symbolic order.”
The event will begin with wine, cheese and snacks at 6:30pm and the talks will begin promptly at 6:45pm. The event will end promptly at 8:00pm. If you are able, please let us know if you will be attending using this RSVP form.