“Richard Coer de Lyon” and the State of Exception – October 17
Friday, October 17
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Central Library 211
Desperate Measures Call for Desperate Times: Richard Coer de Lyon and the State of Exception
a lecture by Mariah Min
The Middle English Romance Richard Coer de Lyon considers the crusades to be an emergency that necessitates extreme measures. Simultaneously, the enormity of Richard’s transgressions is what works to supposedly prove the Crusades are a difficult task; desperate measures and desperate time ontologically produce each other in a closed loop of exigency.
This event is made possible through the Robert & Lillian Drake Lecture Series endowment.
Mariah Min is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Brown University. Her research concerns the cultural output of the Late Middle Ages in Britain and interlinked regions, centering on characterization and portrayals of identity formation, in particular literary depictions of race. Her current book project, Figure Writing: Technologies of Character in Medieval Literature, examines medieval literary characters in order to disentangle the longstanding conflation of character and human subjectivity within both critical and popular discourse. She is also at work on a second project about the memorializing functions of cannibalism.