medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to attend "Medieval Celebrations: Modes, Moods, and Mise en Texte," Professor Nancy Freeman Regalado's keynote lecture for the 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium.  This three-day colloquium is dedicated to exploring issues of celebration across the Romance languages and Thursday and Friday's panels include a number of scholars who will be leading discussion about medieval performance, ritual, and celebration. Professor Regalado's lecture will take place on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the Harborside Room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Jersey City, NJ (USA).

Professor of French at New York University, Nancy Freeman Regalado is the author of Poetic Patterns in Rutebeuf: A Study in Non-Courtly Poetic Modes of the Thirteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), co-editor of Le Roman de Fauvel in the Edition of Mesire Chaillous de Pesstain (New York: Broude Bros. 1990), Performing Mediev! al Narrative (Oxford: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), and Contexts: Styles and Values in Art and Literature of Medieval France (Yale French Studies, 1991).  She has written numerous articles about medieval literature and courtly culture, including studies of performance, royal entries, tournaments, lyric poetry, and romance.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Montclair State University and the journal Romance Studies, Prof. Regalao's talk has been made possible, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For directions to the Hyatt Regency or for more information about the three-day colloquium, please consult the conference web site: http://chss.montclair.edu/~emerye/romancestudies.htm. Please feel free to write ! or contact me at the address below for any additional information.

All best,

Elizabeth Emery
Associate Professor of French
Dept. of French, German, and Russian
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Tel: 973-655-4452
Fax: 973-655-7909


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