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February
Tuesday, February 7
Lianna Farber, English, University of Minnesota
"Seeing is Believing: Rational Responses to Evidence in Medieval England"
Friday, February 10
Adam Kosto, History, Columbia University
"Medieval Hostages, Contract Theory, and the History of International Law"
Cosponsored with the Legal History Workshop. Contact Meghan Schwartz at schwa859@umn.edu for a precirculated paper.
12:15-2:10 p.m., 55 Mondale Hall
Tuesday, February 14
John France, History, Swansea University
"Thirty Years of War: Warfare in the Plain of the Po 1189-1220"
March
Tuesday, March 6
Tom DuBois, Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Örvar Odds Saga and Dilemmas of Context"
Tuesday, March 27
Miri Rubin, History, Queen Mary, University of London
"The Boy, the Uncle, the Jews and the Monk: Norwich 1144 and Its Afterlives"
April
Tuesday, April 3
Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Romanesque Sculpture, The Senses and Religious Experience"
Tuesday, April 17
Bruce Holsinger, English and Music, University of Virginia
Title TBA
Tuesday, April 24
Jimmy Schryver, Art History, University of Minnesota - Morris
"Medieval Kings and Symbolic Landscapes in Western Ireland"
May
Tuesday, May 1
Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, History, University of Minnesota - Duluth
"Hasaniya's Treatise: Shi'ism, Popular Narrative, and Public Performance in the Early Safavid Period"
In M.R. James's "Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories" (English Historical Review XXXVII, 1922), a number of Latin texts from fifteenth century Yorkshire recount the encounters between everyday people and the spirits of the dead. In one, a female ghost is forced to wander after her death with cobwebs hanging in strands from her right hand. What had she done to deserve her fate?
Please send trivia responses by email to cmedst@umn.edu with Trivia in the subject line.
December 22nd, 2011Late medieval religiosity was increasingly focused on laypeople's responsibility for their own spiritual well-being. This shift must have changed the professional lives of priest although exactly how has not yet been studied. Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher is currently in Paris examining ecclesiastical court records to ascertain the professional and social roles of priests in Parisian parishes. She hopes to illuminate how grassroots and institutional religious reforms affected the daily lives of priests. Her research trip was made possible by the Bilinski Fellowship and the Henrietta Holm Warwick.
October 24th, 2011