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Plenary Speakers


Sarah Kay, Princeton University, author of Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry, Cambridge, 1990; The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance, Oxford, 1995; Courtly Contradictions, Stanford, 2001; The Place of Thought : the Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry, Pennsylvania, 2007.

John Tolan, Université de Nantes, author of Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, Columbia, 2002; Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages, Florida, 2008; St. Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter, Oxford, forthcoming 2009.