{"id":476,"date":"2016-10-04T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-10-04T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:43:29","slug":"the-2016-chaucer-lecture-13th-october-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/10\/04\/the-2016-chaucer-lecture-13th-october-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"The annual Chaucer Lecture: 13 October 2016, 6pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given by <strong>Professor Stephen Rigby<\/strong> of the University of Manchester, this year&#8217;s Chaucer Lecture is entitled, <em>Three Approaches to Chaucer in Context<\/em>. The open lecture will take place on <strong>Thursday, 13th October<\/strong> at <strong>6.00pm<\/strong> in <strong>Woolf College&#8217;s Lecture Theatre<\/strong>, at the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury Campus. All are welcome and a wine reception will follow the lecture.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Rigby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester. One of his key interests in research and teaching is late medieval English literature in its historical context.\u00a0Professor Rigby&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Chaucer in Context<\/em> was a survey of critical attempts to establish the social meaning of medieval literature, an area he also explored in his article on medieval defences of women for <em>Chaucer Review<\/em>,\u00a0his discussion of literature as social ideology in the <em>Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages<\/em> and\u00a0his <em>Wisdom and Chivalry<\/em> which discusses Chaucer\u2019s \u2018Knight\u2019s Tale\u2019 in relation to medieval political theory.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently editing a volume for Oxford University Press in which historians attempt to locate Chaucer\u2019s pilgrims in the \u2018General Prologue\u2019 to the Canterbury Tales in their historical context and future projects include an article on the representation of peasants in medieval social ideology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given by Professor Stephen Rigby of the University of Manchester, this year&#8217;s Chaucer Lecture is entitled, Three Approaches to Chaucer in Context. The open lecture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/10\/04\/the-2016-chaucer-lecture-13th-october-6pm\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}