A lecture by Alison L.P. Beringer—
7:30 pm on Zoom.
In this beautifully illustrated lecture, Alison Beringer explores the textual descriptions and pictorial representations of some of the best-known birds in the literature and myth of the European Middle Ages. What is it about certain birds that made them so appealing to our cultural forebears, and what made humans attribute particular functions and meanings to each?
Alison L. P. Beringer is Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities at Montclair State University. She holds an M. A. in Classics from the University of Victoria, an A. M. in German from the University of Illinois, and a Ph. D. in German Studies from Princeton University. Her work focuses on German medieval literature and culture, in particular the reception of classical antiquity. Professor Beringer's first book, The Sight of Semiramis, explored the origins and transformations of the figure of the mythical queen, from the Babylonian empire to the early modern period; her current project is a study of the role of sculpture and sculptures in German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An avid birder in her free time, she pays extra attention in her scholarship to the presence of birds in texts and pictures produced in the European Middle Ages.
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For a Zoom invitation to this lecture, write montclairbirdclub1920@gmail.com.
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