Event time:
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 4:00pm
Location:
LC 105 (updated location)
Event description:
Chaucer’s Prioress may be the most infamous of Anglophone literature’s pet lovers; for more than a century, the criticism has targeted her for her misplaced “delicate sensibilities.” This paper will not directly counter the often misogynist criticism, but rather will push it to an extreme to propose how the Prioress’s notorious brooch, reading “love conquers all,” compels us to think through the problems of any community formation.
Steel’s first book is How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages. He co-edited “The Animal Turn,” a special issue of postmedieval. His current book project is Medieval Nonhumanisms, on pets, feral children, sky burial, and oysters.