I was delighted last week to help organize a roundtable on Beowulf featuring Benjamin Bagby and Penn Faculty Caroline Batten, David Wallace, and myself! It was a wonderful conversation, which took place in the Pavilion of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and served to introduce the next day’s performance of Beowulf by Bagby at Penn Live Arts.
Benjamin Bagby talking about the meter and poetics of Beowulf
Photo: PennToday; Mary Caldwell enthusiastically talking about medieval music and notation at the Beowulf roundtable