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CATEGORIES:Fitzwilliam College Linguists' Events
SUMMARY:The Duel on Page and Screen:  Wordsmith and Blades
 mith in Conversation - John Leigh and Magnus Sigur
 dsson Hardradi
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151123T190000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/62696
DESCRIPTION:The Master of Fitzwilliam College invites you to a
   Conversation with\n\nDr John Leigh (University L
 ecturer in French\, Cambridge) and bladesmith Magn
 us Sigurdsson Hardradi\, who will discuss the use 
 of weapons in history\, literature and the movies.
 \n\nJohn Leigh is a specialist in eighteenth-centu
 ry French thought and literature. His most recent 
 book\, TOUCHé: THE DUEL IN LITERATURE (Harvard Uni
 versity Press\, 2015)\, explores the duel in liter
 ature from the 17th to the 20th century\, and show
 s how it illuminates the tensions that attended th
 e birth of the modern world.  More information her
 e: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/to-the-d
 eath.   He is also the author of The Search for En
 lightenment (Duckworth\, 1999) and Voltaire's Sens
 e of History (Voltaire Foundation\, 2004).\n\nMagn
 us Sigurdsson is a historian\, armourer and blades
 mith who makes weapons and armour for big and smal
 l screen productions. He will discuss the history 
 and lore of the duel with the swords that he makes
  using traditional methods. He will talk through t
 he development of weapons from the Viking holmgang
 \,  via Shakespeare's 'deadly dance' as seen in Ha
 mlet and Romeo and Juliet\, to the pistol. Magnus 
 will add a little on 'silver screen' interpretatio
 ns for good measure.  For more information\, see: 
  http://www.magnus-sigurdsson-hardradi.org.uk/\n\n
 \nThe event is free and open to the public.  For m
 ore information about this event\, see:\nhttps://w
 ww.fitz.cam.ac.uk/events/conversation-master-touch
 %C3%A9-illustrated-guide-duel-history-and-literatu
 re
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge
CONTACT:Susan Larsen
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