As a student of both Classics and Medieval studies, I am particularly drawn to the usage and interpretation of the Classics in the Carolingian era. I am attracted to the semantics of Latin and the multivalent meanings they can convey in, but are not limited to, literary texts, which include both prose and poetry. I am also interested in the courtly culture and literature in the reign of Louis the Pious.

Reception of Classics in Carolingian era

Carolingian prose and poetry

Carolingian intellectual history

Carolingian literature and the debate of a ‘literary’ genre

Court of Louis the Pious

John of Salisbury

May 2022: presentation of Boethius’ concept of animal philosophy in the 22nd Annual
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (AIGSC) “All Things That the Black Earth
Feeds”: Animals and Humans, hosted by the Department of Ancient Mediterranean
and Near Easter Studies (AMNE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Professor Courtney Booker