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Helen Barr
Professor Helen Barr is Fellow Emerita at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has published on a wide range of Middle English Literature: Chaucer, Langland, The Piers Plowman Tradition, The Gawain Poet and a range of anonymous writing including The Digby Lyrics. Her latest publication is a critical edition of Patience with accompanying facing page translation into modern English poetry (Broadview, 2024).
Courses
Christmas is coming. Think knights, banquets, carols and a massive Green man with an axe. Join us for a multidisciplinary feast of medieval merriment. We shall explore literary texts alongside historical accounts of the practice of feasting.