International Congress on Medieval Studies

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Archive of Reception of the Classics Lectures

This archive lists in reverse chronological order the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages lectures at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. The lecture, endowed in memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards, is presented each year by a distinguished scholar on a topic pertaining to the reception of the culture of classical antiquity in medieval Europe.

The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages: Pasts and Futures

Jan Ziolkowski

Harvard University

with a response by Justin Stover

Desperately Seeking Naso: Ovid and His Transformations in the Middle Ages

Frank Coulson

The Ohio State University

with a response by Kathryn L. McKinley

The Book of the World Split Open: The First Line of the Medieval Georgics

Christopher Baswell

Barnard College

with a response by Marjorie Curry Woods

Passion, Personification, Sickness, Sin: Brooding on Envy in the Aetas Covidiana

Danuta Shanzer

Universität Wien

with a response by David Konstan

The 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies was canceled due to the pandemic and no Reception of the Classics lecture was given.

Mentioning the Unmentionable: "Praeteritio" and the Legacy of Roman Satire in Aelred of Rievaulx

David Townsend

University of Toronto

with a response by Catherine Conybeare

The Classics and After: What's Still to Be Revealed?

Marjorie Curry Woods

University of Texas–Austin

with a response by Christopher Baswell

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