The Fictive Flight of Birds: Literary and Intellectual Culture

Name: The Fictive Flight of Birds: Literary and Intellectual Culture
Start: 2026-11-11T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-11T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College

Schedule

Wed Nov 11 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College | Edinburgh, SC

Dr Shazia Jagot explores literary and Intellectual Culture across the Islamic world and late medieval England.
About this Event

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In this lecture, Shazia Jagot explores the currents of literary and intellectual transfer from the Islamic world into medieval England in late medieval vernacular literature. It follows the fictive flight of birds, following the course of avian imagery, language, and metaphor, as it appears in astronomical mathematics and astronomical instruments, namely the astrolabe, through to fictive and allegorical writings moving across Arabic, Latin, and Middle English.

Dr Shazia Jagot is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature at the University of York. She has worked at the Universities of Surrey and Southern Denmark (Odense), and held a CBRL fellowship at the British Institute in Amman. She is a graduate of the Universities of Leicester and SOAS.

Chair on behalf of The University of Edinburgh:

Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz | The University of Edinburgh

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