The Provocative Fifteenth Century: Recent Episodes

The Huntington

Bringing together international leaders in the field of medieval studies, this conference focuses interdisciplinary attention on the recent resurgence of interest in fifteenth-century texts and manuscripts and reshapes the dialogue about this decisive moment in English literary history. This conference was funded by The Huntington's Dorothy Collins Brown Endowment and The Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside.

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Lisa H. Cooper lectures in the session entitled, “Inventions, Emotions, and Technical Exhilirations”. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Anke Bernau lectures in the session entitled, “Inventions, Emotions, and Technical Exhilirations”. Bernau is Senior Lecturer In Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

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Anthony Bale lectures in the session entitled, “Displaced Bodies, Readers, and Senses”. Bale is Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Shannon Gayk lectures in the session entitled, “Stimulating Rolls, Books, and Bags”. Gayk is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Alexandra Gillespie lectures in the session entitled, “Stimulating Rolls, Books, and Bags”. Gillespie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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Catherine Sanok lectures in the session entitled, “Displaced Bodies, Readers, and Senses”. Sanok is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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Daniel Wakelin lectures in the session entitled, “Experimentation, Correction, and Wrongdoing”. Wakelin is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

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Daniel Wakelin lectures in the session entitled, “Experimentation, Correction, and Wrongdoing”. Wakelin is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

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James Simpson lectures in the second session entitled, “Unexpected and Estranged Aesthetics”. Simpson is Professor of English at Harvard University.

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Jessica Brantley lectures in the second session entitled, “Unexpected and Estranged Aesthetics”. Brantley is Professor of English & Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University.

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Jenni Nuttall lectures in the first session entitled,“Provoking Patrons and Misbehaving Memorials”. Nuttal is Fellow by Special Election in English, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

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Robert Meyer-Lee lectures in the first session,“Provoking Patrons and Misbehaving Memorials”. Meyer-Lee is Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College / Indiana University, South Bend.

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Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown deliver the opening remarks to the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

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Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown deliver the closing remarks of the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

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Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “The Provocative Fifteenth Century" conference, held at the Huntington Library on October 16–17, 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.