Skip to main content

SLLL

  • Home
  • People
    • Executive
    • Academics
    • Professional staff
    • Visitors
    • Current HDR students
    • Graduated HDR students
    • Alumni
  • Events
    • Event series
    • Conferences
      • Past conferences
  • News
    • Media library
  • Students
    • Study with us
      • Undergraduate study
      • Graduate coursework
      • Higher degree by research
    • Current students
      • Honours
      • Student exchange
      • Language placement test
    • Overseas study tours
    • Language videos
    • Summer Scholars Program
  • Study options
  • Research
    • Research projects
      • Sydney Speaks Project
        • People
          • Members
          • Students
        • Dissemination
        • Corpora
    • Speech & Language Lab
  • Classics Museum
    • About
    • Classics Museum Catalogue
    • Museum Events
    • Curator-led Tours
    • Friends of the Museum
    • Volunteer Guides
    • Collections Management
    • Research
  • Contact us

Centres

  • Australian National Dictionary Centre
  • Centre for Australian Literary Cultures
  • Centre for Classical Studies
  • Centre for Early Modern Studies
  • Institute for Communication in Health Care

Centre for Australian Literary Cultures

Institute for Communication in Health Care

Linguistics

SLLL

Partners

  • ARC Centre of Excellence in the Dynamics of Language
  • Linguistics at ANU

Networks

Related Sites

  • ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
  • Research School of Humanities and the Arts
  • Australian National Internships Program

Administrator

Breadcrumb

HomeUpcoming EventsCuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Beate Langenbruch, A Walk Through The Garden: Green Treasures In Old French Literature
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Beate Langenbruch, A Walk through the Garden: Green Treasures in Old French Literature

Vegetal enclosure inviting to meditation, idyllic framework for political reflection or locus amoenus for lover’s rendez-vous in Old French poetry and romance: the garden reveals its high and flexible potential in Medieval literature. Do we remember that the epic Song of Roland (ca. 1100) settles the first of its dramatic scenes in two orchards? As a green theatre, the mighty trees of in Beroul’s Tristan and Isold witness an interesting double play, becoming both a lookout and a trap for the lovers’ enemies. Other novels, such as Chretien of Troyes’ Erec and Enide or Cligès consolidate the lacy features of branches by constructing hidden playgrounds for either chivalry combat or secret lovers. Of course, the first garden exposed on a French stage is Eden, since the first religious play in this language is the Jeu d’Adam, that already knows how useful special effects are… Our walk through these medieval gardens will discuss the close interaction of Nature and Human culture, and investigate on the patterns that the diverse genres of Old French literature will display when setting up the green scenery. 
 
Beate Langenbruch is a German researcher, Associate Professor at ENS de Lyon in France, and member of the CIHAM research group (UMR 5648) on history, archeology and literature in the Middle Ages. As a specialist for French medieval texts, she investigates in particular on Old French Epics. Other fields of interest and research are réécriture of medieval texts, their literary genre, medieval gender studies, translation studies and cultural transfers. 

Date & time

  • Thu 08 Aug 2019, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Milgate Room, AD Hope Building, ANU

Speakers

  • Beate Langenbruch

Contact

  •  Christie Margrave
     Send email

File attachments

AttachmentSize
TLS_2019_Langenbruch.pdf(233.66 KB)233.66 KB