Andrew Wallace: “The Fact of Rome”
Andrew Wallace: “The Fact of Rome”
Categories: Lectures and Seminars | Intended for Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Staff/Faculty
1811 Dunton Tower
1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON
Contact Information
Stuart Murray, 2311, stuart.murray@carleton.ca
Registration
No registration required.
Cost
Free
About this Event
Host Organization: Department of English Language & Literature
Research Talk by Andrew Wallace
The Fact of Rome
This talk explores a series of expressions of ancient Rome’s nearness and availability to those who lived in its wake in Medieval and early modern England. In writers ranging from Medieval monks, such as Gildas and Bede, to Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas Browne, and John Milton, encounters with the fact of Rome are interpretable as encounters with the self made strange and as meditations on the order of the ordinary.