"Authors on the Hill" presents Professor Elizabeth Spragins

Authors

Elizabeth L. Spragins, College of the Holy CrossFollow

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Description

Professor Elizabeth Spragins of the Spanish Department at the College of the Holy Cross presents her book A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Fordham University Press, 2023), which examines the literary and epistemological role of the corpse in accounts of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (1578).

Date

4-11-2024

Keywords

lecture series, library, faculty, dead in literature, discourse analysis, Battle of Alcazarquivir, Qaṣr al-Kabīr, Mediterranean studies, death studies, necroepistemology, corpse

Disciplines

Arabic Language and Literature | Medieval History

Duration

1:04:30

Related Book Title

Spragins, Elizabeth. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Fordham University Press, 2023.

Recommended Citation

Spragins, Elizabeth L., ""Authors on the Hill" presents Professor Elizabeth Spragins" (2024). Authors on the Hill. 21.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/aoth/21