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Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton. Tolkien Society Education Officer. Facilitator for the Tolkien, Shakespeare, and Poetry Reading Groups hosted by the Central Library Southampton. Contact for Tolkien-related matters: educationATtolkiensocietyDOTorg. For all other enquiries: lynnevdaATclaraDOTcoDOTuk

Current Research Projects

  • Sixteenth-century politics in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • The Significance of the Matter of England in The Lord of the Rings. Associated with this and with the course on Romances see the link to Bevis of Hampton
  • Poetry and its influence in The Lord of the Rings

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture

For more information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, including graduate seminars and conferences, see www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/

See also http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html

Saturday 14 May 2011

14th century Romances

We have now completed sessions on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and one session on Sir Orfeo during this repeated course. We will be starting 2 sessions on our local hero Bevis of Hampton on 19th May. This unusual medieval adventure story is not widely available in print but can be accessed via http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/bevisint.htm

A summary of the story accompanies the Middle English text.
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