Event Details
Date & Time
Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Cost
$35 includes admission to the event, hard cover copy of This Passing World, author reading and signing, live music, wine, and hosted hors d’oeuvres.
Location
Magnuson Theatre, College Hall, Gonzaga University
Contact/Registration
Information: Community & Public Relations – ext. 6095
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About This Event
For more than 30 years, Professor Mike Herzog passionately taught the work of 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of “The Canterbury Tales,” to Gonzaga University students. Through lively lectures and discussions, thoughtful scholarship, and resplendent medieval feasts and re-enactments, he introduced students to the genius and nuances of “The Canterbury Tales” and other works by the acclaimed poet. Now, he is bringing Chaucer to life through a new historical fiction novel, “This Passing World.”
A Chaucerian scholar and English Professor Emeritus, Herzog returns to Gonzaga on the eve of the novel’s publication for a public reading, reception and book-signing event.
Set around an imagined modern-time discovery of the poet’s long-hidden journals, Herzog brings a contemporary context to Chaucer’s reflections on his multiple roles as a bureaucrat, courtier and poet – capturing the spirit and the reality of the poet’s age while honoring the work and legacy of his enduring vision.