International Visitor Talk: Greg Walker

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Bliss Carnochan International Visitor Greg Walker will deliver a talk entitled "'The red blood runneth down about my head': Reformation, Moderation, and Innovation in John Heywood’s 'The Pardoner and the Friar''".

Greg Walker is a professor of English at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in late medieval and early Tudor literature and drama, and the cultural history of the sixteenth century. He is currently writing a biographical study of the Early Tudor playwright and musician, John Heywood and exploring the potential implications of the “cognitive turn” in literary studies for an understanding of medieval narrative and early drama.