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There are these moments in The Scholar’s Guide, where they’re not
necessarily contradictions, but they’re ruptures, they’re gaps between what
is happening and what we actually notice. That I think suggests that what
Petrus Alfonsi is doing. He’s actually using [the genre of dialogue]
in a way to undercut it. It’s a didactic literature that’s anti-didactic in
its mode.
Shamma Boyarin is an Assistant
Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is also
the director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program. His research and
teaching interests span medieval literature (with a specific focus on Hebrew
and Arabic literature), religion, and pop culture. He joined us recently to
discuss what he’s been reading during the pandemic, and joins us once again to
talk about Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina
Clericalis, as well as teaching such a
text in the context of the history of literature from England.
Show Notes.
Shamma was previously on our second
episode on Reading During Crisis.
Adelard of Bath.
Meir of Norwich.
Susan Einbinder: No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the
Memory of Medieval France.
The article Shamma mentions is Gabriel Ford’s “Why Not Read Petrus Alfonsi’s
Disciplina clericalis in the British Literature
Survey?”,
which is sadly behind a paywall.
Suzanne’s article “Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in
Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Marie de France’s
Fables”.
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There are these moments in The Scholar’s Guide, where they’re not
necessarily contradictions, but they’re ruptures, they’re gaps between what
is happening and what we actually notice. That I think suggests that what
Petrus Alfonsi is doing. He’s actually using [the genre of dialogue]
in a way to undercut it. It’s a didactic literature that’s anti-didactic in
its mode.
Shamma Boyarin is an Assistant
Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is also
the director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program. His research and
teaching interests span medieval literature (with a specific focus on Hebrew
and Arabic literature), religion, and pop culture. He joined us recently to
discuss what he’s been reading during the pandemic, and joins us once again to
talk about Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina
Clericalis, as well as teaching such a
text in the context of the history of literature from England.
Show Notes.
Shamma was previously on our second
episode on Reading During Crisis.
Adelard of Bath.
Meir of Norwich.
Susan Einbinder: No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the
Memory of Medieval France.
The article Shamma mentions is Gabriel Ford’s “Why Not Read Petrus Alfonsi’s
Disciplina clericalis in the British Literature
Survey?”,
which is sadly behind a paywall.
Suzanne’s article “Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in
Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Marie de France’s
Fables”.
If you're enjoying The Spouter-Inn, and you're able to, consider supporting
us on Patreon. Thanks!
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