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Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University, recount the history of debates surrounding rhetoric, language’s capacity to communicate truth and to manipulate perceptions of it, and the presentation of transparency and truthfulness at the 26th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.

Information: medren.barnard.edu











When: Sat., Dec. 1, 2018 at 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Where: Barnard College
3009 Broadway
212-854-4689
Price: Free
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Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University, recount the history of debates surrounding rhetoric, language’s capacity to communicate truth and to manipulate perceptions of it, and the presentation of transparency and truthfulness at the 26th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.

Information: medren.barnard.edu

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