Prof. Duhl Presents at French Colloquium

Olga Anna Duhl, Oliver Edwin Williams Professor of Languages, presented an invited paper at an international interdisciplinary colloquium, “Manuscript to Print, Print to Digital: Editions in Performance and Performance in Editions in Late-Medieval and Renaissance France,” held June 2016 in Britany, France. Sponsored by the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the colloquium brought together a team of leading scholars from the U.S., France, England, and Holland whose research aims to redefine the methods involved in editing literary, theatrical, and musical manuscripts and early-printed performance documents in light of the development of the printing press and the digital humanities. In her paper, Duhl focused specifically on the combined dramatic, visual, and textual strategies by which the famous early sixteenth-century French playwright, Pierre Gringore (1475?-1538) – made famous by Victor Hugo’s popular novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – contributed to creating the image of the Renaissance ruler, King Francis I. Her paper was entitled, “Satire and History in Performance: A New Edition of the Sotye nouvelle des croniqueurs (Pierre Gringore? c. 1515)”