MARS 2025 

Ninth Medieval and Renaissance Symposium 

organized by 

Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź 

and Geoffrey Chaucer Student Society 

29.09.2025 

(Faculty of Philology building - Pomorska 171/173, room 2.20, 2nd floor)

 

Various Aspects of Medieval (and Medievalist) Kingship and Queenship

10:45-12:45
Chair: Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz
Barbara Kowalik (University of Warsaw) - The Gawain-Poet’s Queens
Monika Opalińska (University of Warsaw) - Gunhild’s Psalter or the Role of Myth in Philological Inquiry
Jacek Olesiejko (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) - Epanalepsis and Affective States in Cynewulf's Elene
Andrzej Wicher (University of Łódź) - The Problematic Year 1025 – What do we Celebrate this Year?

12:45-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00
Chair: Piotr Spyra
Aneta Wyczechowska (University of Łódź) - "Myself myself confound": the Power of Language in Richard III
Dominika Ruszkiewicz (Ignatianum University in Kraków) - Grief, the Self and Civic Responsibility in Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess and “The Tale of Melibee”
Łukasz Neubauer (University of Koszalin) - In Search for the Roots of Saint Francis of Assisi’s Chivalric Idealism: Arthurian Romances in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Italy

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30
Chair: Andrzej Wicher
Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia) - The Ruler’s Wife and her Court and Household in Elżbieta Cherezińska’s A Crown of Snow and Blood
Maria Błaszkiewicz (University of Warsaw) - In whom do my people trust? Tolkien’s Insights into the Idea of Kingship
Julian Rakowski (University of Łódź) - “Nobler Is His Spirit than the Understanding of Sauron” – King Elessar’s Racial Geopolitics in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The
Lord of the Rings
Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz (University of Warsaw) - Rodents as Representations of the Idea of Kingship in Fantasy Fiction