Professor Hirsh’s talk, "Chaucer’s God?," focused on two of Chaucer's four religious tales, the Man of Law's Tale and the Clerk's Tale, and set their narratives against a specific reading of an understanding of the Nature of God, as it was understood in the fourteenth-century schools, that is reflected in Chaucer's tales.
This event was sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities, Campion Hall (Oxford), and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford). It is part of a two-year-long series on the Christian Literary Imagination.
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Professor John Hirsh is a professor in the Georgetown University Department of English and a longtime student of Chaucer, medieval lyrics, and medieval literature in general. At Georgetown he has also been invested in urban literacy, and in Golden Rule, formerly Sursum Corda, a tutoring program for undergraduate students.
Professor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford college adviser for postgraduate students, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
