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Assistant Professor of French
University of California, Berkeley

Touch and the Experiences of Medieval French Manuscripts

Funded by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, held at the University of Cambridge from 2021 to 2023.

See the homepage for a description.

See also relevant recent and forthcoming publications:
 

  • “Veiled Reading, Reading Veils: Textile Curtains and the Experiences of Medieval French Manuscripts, 1200–1325,” Digital Philology, 12.2 (2023), 155–94.

  • “Defacing Troy: From Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece to Medieval Manuscripts,” Anglia, 142.3 (2024), 548–72.

  • “Reading Touch in Two Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie (with Jean-Luc Nancy): Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 60 and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginensis Latinus 1505”, in ed. Emma Campbell and Luke Sunderland, The Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan: New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).

  • “Lectures affectives des Faits des Romains (XIIIe–XVe siècles)”, in ed. Anne Rochebouet and Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, Lire et écrire l’histoire dans l’Occident médiéval  / Writing and Reading History Books in the Medieval West (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming).

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London, BL, Royal 19 B XIII, 7v 
‘Vielesce’ from the Roman de la Rose

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Paris, BnF, fr. 60, 59r 

The abduction of Helen of Troy in the Roman de Troie.

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