Daily Archives: 5 June 2014

Help Preserve the National Library of Australia’s Medieval Manuscripts

The National Library has chosen to focus this year’s donation appeal on preserving and digitising key medieval manuscripts from some of their most significant collections. Digitisation would enable the Library to discover more about their provenance and make a major contribution to research in this field.

With your support, the Library will undertake essential preservation and commence digitising the manuscripts to enable their access by a worldwide audience. By providing online access to these rare and fragile documents, they can create a lasting legacy, making the medieval past available to scholars throughout the world.

For more information on the Library’s collection of medieval manuscripts, and how to donate, please visit: http://www.nla.gov.au/support-us/medieval-manuscripts

USydney MEMC/AHSN Seminar: Accessing English Humour in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Texts

Accessing English Humour in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Texts: Sources, Contexts, Intentions, Reception
MEMC and Australasian Humour Studies Network Joint Seminar

Date: 17 September 2014
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Common Room, John Woolley Building (N480 – 4th floor), University of Sydney, Camperdown (main) campus

Programme (to be followed by refreshments):

      1. April Bertels-Garnsey: Looking at the One-Eyed Garlic Seller: Riddle 86 in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond.
      2. Anna Wallace: Classroom Insults and Humour in Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion
      3. Chenoa Hunter: ‘They lawghed all as they were wylde’: Mockery and Masculinity in The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones
      4. Sabina Rahman: Humour in the Early Robin Hood Ballad.

Discussants: Em. Prof. Conal Condren, Prof. Daniel Anlezark

All AHSN members and guests are welcome, but please contact for catering purposes and further directions: Dr Jessica Milner Davis, AHSN Co-ordinator jessica.davis@sydney.edu.au