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Dining with the Hermaphrodites: Courtly Excess and Dietary Manuals in Early Modern France

Time: Feb. 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Location: 151 Eggers Hall

Sponsored in part by the CNY Humanities Corridor

Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor

Notice: "This Week at the Humanities Center" email on 2/17 listed an incorrect start time for this event: 6:30 to 8 p.m. is the correct time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Kathleen Long (Cornell University)

The 1605 novel, The Island of Hermaphrodites, has generally been read as a satire written to excoriate the excesses of the court of Henri III (1574-1589). Long examines the two scenes of collective consumption of food that appear side-by-side in the narration, to consider a more complex reading the courtly practices represented in the novel.

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This event is organized by the “Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (HS1)” working group of the CNY Humanities Corridor, from an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Stephanie Shirilan, English