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CEMS Research Seminar
18 November
Professor Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), French Literature and Culture
Bodies behaving badly in French seventeenth-century poetry and song
This talk considers those bodies which do not conform to social and sexual norms, examing physical disability and sexual otherness in street songs from the Chansonnier Maurepas. These songs follow a long tradition of mocking and celebrating deformed or disproportionate sexual organs, while also presenting the physcial reality of same-sex love without moral condemnation. The talk will feature recordings performed by Ars Eloquentiae, the London based period instrument group, of songs many of which have not been heard since they were sung on the Pont-Neuf in Paris over 300 years ago.
- Speaker
- Professor Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), French Literature and Culture
- Hosted by
- CEMS
- Venue
- King's College KCT2