Prefer canals to fishing boats? Every other year in Hythe is the Hythe Venetian Fete. The Whitstable Oyster Festival is a combination of both the ancient and the modern, reviving the Norman tradition of giving thanks to the sea and the blessing and landing of the oysters whilst the 2007-born Whitstable giants Captain Sam and his wife are paraded through town. Find yourself in Romney Marsh, and you can take part in the Day of Syn to celebrate the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, Dr Syn. We beat the bounds and look for any excuse to break out the Morris dancers. Due to this variety we have our fair share of folklore and traditions both old and new. Our most famous city being the medieval gem, Canterbury. Kent is quite a varied county we have everything from coasts to marshes to miles upon miles of rolling fields (hence the nickname 'The Garden of England') all the way up to bustling cities. My name's Rachel Yelding, I’m a writer and filmmaker based in Kent. Supported by the John Rylands Research Institute. Thursday December 5: Helen Fulton (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York), 'City and Power: The Middle English Seege or Batayle of Troy'. Thursday November 21: David Matthews (English, American Studies, and Creative Writing), 'Dark and unlearned times: literature, print, and periodization between medieval and renaissance'. Thursday November 7: Katy Dutton (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, History), 'Aspects of political culture in twelfth-century Anjou'. Thursday October 24: Cordelia Warr (Art History and Visual Studies, Manchester), 'The devil on my tail: Clothing and medieval visual culture in the Camposanto Last Judgement, Pisa'.
*NB This seminar is in Samuel Alexander S 2.8 Milner (Serena Professor of Italian, Manchester), ‘The renaissance of medieval classicism in Italy: from manuscript to book’. All seminars start at 5.30pm and are held in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate
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