Program change: Alessandra Petrina’s lecture (scheduled on 3 April in Budapest) will be cancelled due to the illness of our invited speaker. All other events will take place as advertised:

The English Department will host two visiting scholars of medieval and early modern English literature between 2 and 4 April 2014:

Denis Renevey (University of Lausanne)

Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)

We cordially invite you to the events they will stage during their stay both in Piliscsaba and Budapest.

2 April (Wednesday) 2.15-3.30 pm, Amb 220, Piliscsaba:

Public lecture by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead entitled “Poetry to the Courtly Beloved and the Celestial Beloved: Fifteenth-Century Voices”

3 April (Thursday) 8.30-11.30 am, Amb 206, Piliscsaba:

Medieval Performance Workshop for MA and BA students, moderated by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead

CANCELLED:3 April (Thursday) 5-7 pm, ELTE BTK, Múzeum körút, Building B, Room 172 (Budapest):

Public talk of Alessandra Petrina entitled “Machiavelli in the British Isles: The Dissemination of Machiavelli’s Principe in Early Modern England and Scotland” delivered on the invitation of the New Hungarian Shakespeare Committee

4 April (Friday) 9.00 am-6.00 pm, Amb 220, Piliscsaba:

Research Day in Medieval English Studies workshop with the participation of international and Hungarian PhD students, post-docs and senior researchers presenting and discussing on-going projects related to medieval and early modern English studies.

For further information visit the website of the English Department:

or contact Karáth Tamás ().

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Denis Renevey is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the English Department of theUniversity of Lausanne. He specialises in late medieval and devotional literature, medieval religious writings for and by women, Chaucer and his fourteenth-century contemporaries. He published the critical edition of the Middle English devotional tract The Doctrine of the Heart (Exeter: University of Exeter Press 2010) with Christiania Whitehead and Anne Mouron, as well as Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), which discusses the correspondences between the discourse of love in the Song of Songs and the language of mysticism in the writings of William of St Thierry and Richard Rolle, where the self is described in its attempts at establishing a direct relationship with God. He has widely published articles and studies on the medieval English mystical tradition, female devotional writing and vernacularity in the late Middle Ages.

Christiania Whitehead is Reader in Medieval Literature at the Department of English and Comparative Literature of the University of Warwick. Her research interests include religious and devotional literature from the 12th to the 15thcenturies in Middle English and Latin, with an emphasis on writing by and for women; religious and courtly allegory; and Arthurian literature.She is co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England (University of Wales Press, 2000) with Denis Renevey and The Doctrine of the Heart (University of Exeter Press, 2010) with Denis Renevey and Anne Mouron. She published a monograph on medieval allegory (Castles of the Mind: A Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003) and a collection of poetry, The Garden of Slender Trust (Bloodaxe, 1999), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for the Best First Collection of Poetry.