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Dr Lewis Beer

Overview

Dr Lewis Beer Position: Lecturer Email: BeerLR@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74618
Extension: 74618
Location: John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Research Group

English Literature

Research Interests

Medieval literature (especially fourteenth century), Boethius, the Roman de la rose, Guillaume de Machaut, John Gower, John Lydgate, Shakespeare; particular interests in medieval allegory, love poetry and didacticism.

Selected Publications

Translation (French to English): Allirot, Anne-Hélène, ‘Longchamp and Lourcine: The Role of Female Abbeys in the Construction of Capetian Memory (Late-Thirteenth Century to Mid-Fourteenth Century)’, in Memory, Commemoration and Medieval France (ed. by Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen and Mary Franklin-Brown), under consideration for publication with Ashgate.

‘Desire, Despair and Hope in the Remede de Fortune: Machaut's Boethian debt reconsidered’. Under consideration for publication in Modern Philology.

‘Polarised Debates, Ambivalent Judgments: the Rose, the Confessio and the Jugement Behaigne’. Under consideration for inclusion in the projected volume, Judgment in the Late Middle Ages: Authorship and Selfhood Within Literary, Social, Political, and Philosophical Currents (ed. by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman).

Publications

Recent Publications

Translation (French to English): Allirot, Anne-Hélène, ‘Longchamp and Lourcine: The Role of Female Abbeys in the Construction of Capetian Memory (Late-Thirteenth Century to Mid-Fourteenth Century)’, in Memory, Commemoration and Medieval France (ed. by Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen and Mary Franklin-Brown), under consideration for publication with Ashgate.

‘Desire, Despair and Hope in the Remede de Fortune: Machaut's Boethian debt reconsidered’. Under consideration for publication in Modern Philology.

‘Polarised Debates, Ambivalent Judgments: the Rose, the Confessio and the Jugement Behaigne’. Under consideration for inclusion in the projected volume, Judgment in the Late Middle Ages: Authorship and Selfhood Within Literary, Social, Political, and Philosophical Currents (ed. by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman).

Research

I am currently revising my doctoral thesis ('Fortune and Desire in Guillaume de Machaut') as a book on didacticism in medieval love poetry; it is primarily concerned with the adaptation, by poets such as Machaut, of the didactic methods used by Boethius in his De consolatione Philosophiae. I am also writing an article on the medieval and modern debates surrounding the Roman de la rose, and another on the function of Genius in Gower's Confessio Amantis.

Biography

I did my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Warwick, and came to Cardiff in 2011. I teach the BA and MA Shakespearean Comedy modules, as well as a BA module on medieval allegory.