2027 Book Launch: Helen Swift and Sophie Marnette

We are delighted to welcome the St Hilda's alumnae community to join our current students and staff to celebrate with Professor Helen Swift (St Hilda’s) and Professor Sophie Marnette (Balliol) the launch of their new book, La Chastelaine de Vergi: Encounters in Medieval Literary Space. This volume of essays traces the literary history and cultural afterlife of a thirteenth-century French courtly tale from its medieval origins to early modern and modern reinventions.

Current students, who also studied the Chastelaine as part of the first-year French course, will perform a dramatised reading of the tale’s denouement. One of the volume’s contributors will perform the lyric song quoted in the text.

The launch will also include a drinks reception, alongside the opportunity to buy the book at a 50% discount. Alternatively, if you’d like to purchase an eBook or hardback copy in advance, you can use a 35% discount code to order online now.

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