Visiting Professor Presents Talk on Literary Flexing in Anglo-Latin Charters

Dr. Scott Smith, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Penn State University, will give a talk at 6:30 p.m. April 13 in Baldwin Hall 256. Smith will discuss the highly embellished prose vocabulary, rhythm and rhetorical figures from 10th century property deeds, as well as the development of different registers of Latin in the medieval period. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Interdisciplinary Studies.