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At the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference 2015

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date March 14, 2015
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I was honoured to be invited to give the opening Plenary lecture at the MAA annual meeting, this year held at the University of Notre Dame in the US.

Tags 13thC, bestiaries, digital images, intertextuality, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, Peter Konieczny, Richard de Fournival, University of Notre Dame

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Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date September 12, 2013
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Links to some of the manuscript sources for Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amours.

Tags 13thC, bestiaries, digital images, facsimiles, gender, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, Richard de Fournival

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Refrains in odd places

The Bestiaire d’amours citing a motet.

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The vows of the peacock

Privat vs. Margue on the significance of the peacock in a 14thC poem.

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Tags 14thC, Alexander the Great, bestiaries, book review, intertextuality, medieval, Middle Ages, peacock

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The Sound of Beauty: Darwin Lecture 2011

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date February 27, 2011
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Dealing with the dangers of music in the Middle Ages.

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Tags ars subtilior, balade, bestiaries, ethics, gender, Machaut, medieval, Middle Ages, sirens, song