Eliza Zingesser, "Francophone Troubadours"
Department: The Center for Early Cultures
Date and Time: April 28, 2014 | 12:00 PM-2:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 137
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Francophone Troubadours
Assimilating Occitan Poetry in Medieval France
Eliza Zingesser
University of Ottowa
Eliza Zingesser works on medieval French and Occitan literature, with a focus on assimilation, multilingualism, cultural and linguistic contact, and gender and sexuality. She is currently writing two books. The first, “French Troubadours: Assimilating Occitan Poetry in Medieval France,” explores the reception of Occitan lyric poetry in France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that is, in the period corresponding to the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) and its aftermath, which witnessed France’s annexation of the majority of Occitania. The second book, “Borderlands: Intercultural Encounters in the Medieval French Pastourelle,” explores how pastoral literature—especially pastourelle poetry— became a privileged site for French explorations of cultural and linguistic difference in the Middle Ages.
Free and open to the public.
For event information, please contact Ève Célia Morisi
(emorisi@uci.edu).