Meiji University Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies
AY 2023
l Taro Ishiguro and Koichi Kano successfully requested to the University Library the purchase of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, under the title Britannie utriusque regum et principum origo et gesta insignia (Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1508) in October 2023.
AY 2024
l Society for Chaucer Studies 118th meeting, Izumi Campus, 2 August 2024. Rio Fukuoka, a graduate student at Keio University, gave a talk on Sir Cleges (in Japanese).
l Articles on the Historia regum Britanniae contributed by Koichi Kano and Taro Ishiguro to the University Library’s journal Tosho no Fu, vol. 29 (2025), pp. 41–45 and 47–54, respectively (in Japanese).
l Society for Chaucer Studies 119th meeting, Surugadai Campus, 19 October 2024. Kaori Tachibana, a graduate student at Doshisha University, gave a talk on the death of a boy and greyne in the Prioress’s Tale (in Japanese).
l Society for Chaucer Studies 120th meeting, Izumi Campus, 1 February 2025. Taro Ishiguro gave a talk on the Meiji copy of the Historia regum Britanniae (1508).
l Society for Chaucer Studies 121st meeting, Surugadai Campus, 27 March 2025. Masa Ikegami, Professor Emerita at Keio University, gave a talk on Middle English pronunciation and rhyme.
AY 2025
l Open lecture hosted by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa of the Center and by the University’s International Collaboration Office: Liz Herbert McAvoy, Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature, Swansea University, and Honorary Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol, “Countering the Violence: Anchoresses, Female Spirituality and the Literary Culture of the Welsh-English Borderlands in the Middle Ages,” Surugadai Campus, 2 April 2025.
l Taro Ishiguro, Koichi Kano, Jo Thae-Ho and Miwako Takahashi, 2025 Meiji University Library Exhibition Catalogue (in Japanese) for the exhibition held at the Central Library, Surugadai, between 18 November 2025 and 18 January 2026.
l Open lecture hosted by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa of the Center: Laura Saetveit Miles, University of Bergen, “Birgitta of Sweden in Medieval England’s Literary Culture: Infiltration and Compilation,” Surugadai Campus, 23 February 2026.
