Mrs Sara Madoré

My project about 12th-century representations of emotions, clerical medical knowledge and marriage in romances produced in Champagne (France) examines Gautier d’Arras and Chrétien de Troyes's works together from a multi-faceted perspective.

At the end of the 12th century, when Chrétien de Troyes was composing his famous Arthurian romances in Old French at the court of Champagne, a lesser well-known cleric was experimenting his own aesthetics, at the same time and in the same place: Gautier d’Arras. It appears that, although for Chrétien matrimony was an essential part of the Arthurian knight’s adventures in a world full of fantasy and ‘merveille’, Gautier focused on psychological debates and gave a leading role to women in his realistic stories. While the first gets inspiration from the ‘matière de Bretagne’ and Arthur’s court, the latter ostensibly rejects the Arthurian trend.

Teaching: 
Seminar Tutor:

• FREN10013: Representations of Francophone Cultures (Year 1 Unit – Department of French)
• ENGL10042: Literature 1150-1550 (Year 1 Unit – Department of English)
• CLAS10038: Literature (Year 1 Unit – Department of Classics & Ancient History)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

Widening Participation Tutor (French and Spanish) and Bristol Futures Mentor ('Global Citizenship' and 'Sustainable Futures' courses). 

Linguistic profile:
French: native.
Catalan: native.  
Latin, Old and Middle French: academic level.
English: bilingual.
Spanish: C1.
Italian: B2.
German: A2 (University-Wide Language Programme).
Irish Gaelic: A1.