Professor Luke Sunderland's Outputs (2)

Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 23(5), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2018.1513200

Giorgio Agamben is accused of political passivity, but this article argues that he sees the potential for resistance in modes of being inactive and unproductive, in study, play and profanity, which alone can escape the binary oppositions through whic... Read More about Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks.

Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy041

Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie is notable for its long descriptions of buildings and objects and for its focus on the emotions of characters. Drawing on historiographical work by Eelco Runia and Frank Ankersmit, amongst others, this article... Read More about Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.