New College International Women's Day Lecture The School of Divinity, in collaboration with New College Pride and the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature, warmly invites you to the 2024 International Women's Day Lecture at New College. Register Title Voicing Lesbian Love in 16th Century Scotland: Biblical Imagery in the Poetry of Marie Maitland. Speaker Ashley Douglas Respondents Dr Lois Wilson-McFarland (Teaching Fellow in Religion and Literature) Ashley Raper (Co-Convenor of New College Pride) Valerie Mear (Co-Convenor of New College Pride) Lecture Description The lecture will introduce Marie Maitland, a remarkable 16th-century Scottish woman, and one of the earliest known authors of lesbian love poetry since the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos (who gave us the very terms "sapphic" and "lesbian") herself. It will give an overview of the Maitland Quarto manuscript (1586) in which Marie's poetry is contained, before focusing on Poem 49, in which Marie invokes the biblical figures of Ruth and Naomi in the context of her express desire to marry another woman. It will conclude with reflections about what this 16th-century lesbian love poem, rich in biblical imagery and appeals to the scriptures, means for the intersection between faith and queer love, both today and in the past. Mar 04 2024 13.00 - 15.00 New College International Women's Day Lecture We invite you to join us for the 2024 New College International Women's Day Lecture. Martin Hall, New College, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX
New College International Women's Day Lecture The School of Divinity, in collaboration with New College Pride and the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature, warmly invites you to the 2024 International Women's Day Lecture at New College. Register Title Voicing Lesbian Love in 16th Century Scotland: Biblical Imagery in the Poetry of Marie Maitland. Speaker Ashley Douglas Respondents Dr Lois Wilson-McFarland (Teaching Fellow in Religion and Literature) Ashley Raper (Co-Convenor of New College Pride) Valerie Mear (Co-Convenor of New College Pride) Lecture Description The lecture will introduce Marie Maitland, a remarkable 16th-century Scottish woman, and one of the earliest known authors of lesbian love poetry since the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos (who gave us the very terms "sapphic" and "lesbian") herself. It will give an overview of the Maitland Quarto manuscript (1586) in which Marie's poetry is contained, before focusing on Poem 49, in which Marie invokes the biblical figures of Ruth and Naomi in the context of her express desire to marry another woman. It will conclude with reflections about what this 16th-century lesbian love poem, rich in biblical imagery and appeals to the scriptures, means for the intersection between faith and queer love, both today and in the past. Mar 04 2024 13.00 - 15.00 New College International Women's Day Lecture We invite you to join us for the 2024 New College International Women's Day Lecture. Martin Hall, New College, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX
Mar 04 2024 13.00 - 15.00 New College International Women's Day Lecture We invite you to join us for the 2024 New College International Women's Day Lecture.
