This has been only the second time this international conference series has come to Ireland (and the first to Cork). For over two decades, the series has been the forum for the debate and publication of some of the most cutting-edge approaches to the medieval literature of entertainment in these islands.
Conference organiser Dr Ken Rooney, lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature in the School of English, UCC, welcomed distinguished scholars and editors of medieval texts such as Professor Helen Cooper (Cambridge University), Professor Maldwyn Mills (Aberystwyth), and Professor Derek Pearsall (Harvard and York). The conference brought together exciting papers from both established and early-career scholars, and, over nearly thirty papers, delegates generated cordial and lively debate on recurring problems in the production, reception and interpretation of late-medieval secular writing in these islands, in the languages of English, Latin, French and Irish.
The next conference in this series will be held in St Hugh’s College, Oxford in April 2012. Selected proceedings of the Cork conference are now in preparation. The line-up for the conference in UCC can be found at http://www.ucc.ie/en/med-romance/
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