In association with the exhibition “Heroes and Wonders of the Middle Ages”, the Abbey of Fontevraud is mounting a series of lectures and special evenings.
Saturday 28 July
15:00- 19:00: Archery An Introduction and
Demonstration
18:00:
The Middle Ages and the Cinema: the example of Robin
Hood
A lecture by François de la Bretèque
19:30: Medieval Banquet
21:30:Open-air Cinema Michael Curtizs The
Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn.
Saturday 4 August at 18:00
Monsters and bogeymen: Fear as a means of education in the
Middle Ages
A lecture by Jacques Berlioz
20:00: Evening presentation in the play area
21:30: Open-air Cinema - Richard Fleischers The
Vikings
Wednesday 8 August at 18:00
Ivanhoe an ideal model of the Middle Ages in the
Romantic Period
A lecture by Michel Pastoureau
Saturday 11 August at 18:00
The Wonders of the Night: Accounts and images of dreams in
the Middle Ages
A lecture by Jean-Claude Schmitt.
20:00: Evening presentation in the play area
21:30: Open-air Cinema - Walt Disneys Sleeping
Beauty.
Saturday 18 August from 18:00
Umberto Eco Day
18:00: An encounter with Umberto Eco
21:30: Open-air Cinema Jean-Jacques Annauds "The
Name of the Rose"
Thursday 23 August at 18:00
Pierre Soulages
Encounter with Pierre Soulages
Saturday 25 August at 18:00
Richard Cur de Lion, the King and Knight
Lecture by Jean Flori, Director of Research at CNRS (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique & Centre
dÉtudes Supérieures de Civilisation
Médiévale National Centre for Scientific Research
and Poitiers Centre for Higher Education in Medieval Civilisation).
19:00: Tasting of local products.
20:00: Concert Music from the time of Richard Cur
de Lion by the Diabolus in Musica Ensemble
21:30: Open-air Cinema Monty Python and the Holy
Grail by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.
Under the auspices of the Poitou Charentes
Regions festival. Nuits Romanes (Romanesque Nights)
Saturday 15 September at 17:00
Did the people of the Middle Ages believe their own
legends?
A lecture by Claude Gauvard, Professor of Medieval History at
the University of Paris-1 / Panthéon-Sorbonne, Member de
lInstitut Universitaire de France. Lecture organised by the
journal Histoire.
Further details from:
Abbey
of Fontevraud