Book Reception in honor of Professor Olga Anna Duhl

Please join us for a brunch to celebrate the publication of Professor Olga Anna Duhl's critical edition of La Nef des folles (The Ship of Foolish Maidens). The culmination of nearly ten years of research in libraries in France and the United States, this groundbreaking work was published in 2013 by the Parisian publishing house Classiques Garnier as part of its Texts of the Renaissance series. The work examines Jehan Drouyn’s Middle French adaptation of a Latin text by the humanist printer-scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius, which is an addendum to Sebastian Brant’s popular satire the Narrenschiff, published in 1494 in German. Duhl’s edition  is the first one in which the French adaptation of the Latin text, written between 1498 and 1501, has been made available to modern readers beyond the sixteenth century. In addition to making the text accessible to the modern reader, Duhl closely analyzes its historical, religious, gender, and linguistic aspects, providing a comprehensive reference that is the first of its kind for La Nef des folles and an important contribution to the field of book history.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing by the author.  Brunch will be served.