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Welcome Back!

Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Study folks are a peripatetic bunch!  And the faculty often spend much of their summer traveling abroad to conferences to deliver papers, visiting museums, and exploring archives, archeological sites, and historic monuments.

This year, to re-launch our AMRS Blog Abroad, I'd like to invite all AMRS faculty and students to post an image or two about their summer travels.  Tell us where you went, and what you saw.  We'd love to learn.

Below is an image of Patience Agbabi, one of the latest and most talented artists to be inspired by Chaucer.  If you follow this link, you'll hear her brilliant cover of Chaucer's Tale of Melibee, the one Canterbury Tale told by Chaucer himself.

Agbabi  gave a dramatic reading at this year's New Chaucer Society conference, held this July in London. I couldn't tape myself from that performance, but here she is on Youtube.

Enjoy!
Patricia DeMarco
Director, AMRS


Patience Agbabi performs a Canterbury Tale.