Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota

March

30
Friday
4:00-6:00 PM
*Please note time change*
Nolte 125

Workshop:
Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University)
Topic: The Role of Arabic in Medieval Studies
Flier available in pdf format.

April

4
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Julia M. H. Smith (University of Glasgow)
"The Wife, the Bishop and the Devil: a Ninth-Century Dilemma"

June

September

13
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Carolyn Whitson (Metropolitan State University)
“What's in the Devil? Nature and Urbanization in Last Judgment Scenes in Medieval Art”

October

11
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Mollie Madden (University of Minnesota)
“Meeting the Needs of Readers: The Rubrication of BL MS Cotton Galba E ix”

**Co-sponsored with the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory**

 

28
Saturday
9:00-4:00
*Location to be announced*

Workshop:
Kathleen Dimmich (University of Minnesota)
“So What Did They Wear: Clothing 600-1600 in Western Europe”

Cost: $35 for the workshop and materials
Limit 10 participants

November

February

15
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Vivian Ramalingam (Independent Scholar)
"Number and Exegesis in Machaut's Central Motet (M9)"

March

29
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Kaaren Grimstad and Michelle A. Nordtorp-Madson (University of Minnesota)
"An Otter's Tale"

Preview "Wergild for Otr" from The Saga of the Volsungs (pdf)

April

5
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Workshop:
“Sharing the Middle Ages with New Audiences:
A Panel Discussion on Outreach Programs and Writing for Non-Scholars”

Glenn Davis (St. Cloud State University)
Deborah Shepherd (Anoka-Ramsey Community College)
Susan Noakes (University of Minnesota)

September

28
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Abbey von Gohren
"Imaging Medieval Studies: An Introduction to the CMS Digital Library"

October

12
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Mary Louise Fellows (University of Minnesota Law School)
"AEthelgifu's Will: A Quest for Orderliness"

November

2
Wednesday
12:30 P.M.
Nolte 235

Kathleen Chen (Department of English, University of Minnesota)
"Mary in Purgatory"

February

16
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

Alexandra Cuffel (Macalester College): "Jewish Theological Transformations of Christian Medical Debates"

March

Workshop:
Karla Mallette (American University of Beirut): "Muhammad in Dante's Inferno XXVIII"

*Please contact CMS for a copy of the text.*

23
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

Workshop:
Jennifer Young (Department of English, University of Minnesota): "Beowulf, Sigemund, and the Uses of History: Or, Can One Really Trust the Old Stories?"

30
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

Michael Lower (Department of History, University of Minnesota): "St. Louis's Dream of African Christianization"

April

13
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

A Presentation on the GRPP project "A Case of Ritual Murder in Fifteenth-Century Castile" by Barbara Weissberger and Matt Desing (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota)

Children and the Cultural Reproduction of Anti-Semitism (English Translations)

Case Summary and Chronology: Santo Niño de La Guardia

20
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

Laura Smoller (University of Arkansas): "Astrology and the Sibyls: John of Legnano and the Natural Theology of the Later Middle Ages"

Translated text excerpts from John of Legnano, De adventu Christi (downloadable pdf).

27
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Nolte 235

A Presentation on the GRPP project "Debt Among Religious Women in Medieval Southern France: Perspectives from Languedoc and Provence" by Kathryn Reyerson and Kelly Morris (Department of History, University of Minnesota).

September

7
Tuesday

Fall Semester Begins: First Day of Class

Rosh Hashanah

Workshop:
Professor Vasileios Syros (Department of History, University of Helsinki): "A Comparison of Marsilius of Padua's and Don Isaac Abravanel's Views on Kingship".

For Professor Syros' translations of the latin texts, click here. (*This is an MSWord Document).

22
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Nolte Room 235

Workshop:
Professor Karl Morrison (Rutgers University) will discuss two short extracts from a text by the Dominican mystic Margaret Ebner, Major Works.
Work used with permission by Paulist Press (www.paulistpress.com)

Professor Morrison will also give a talk on Thursday, September 23.

24
Friday

29
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Nolte Room 235

Yom Kippur

Workshop: A "Text and Image Conversation", continuing to honor the contributions of Calvin B. Kendall:
Professor Amanda Luyster (Minnesota State University, Mankato): "Wall-painting and Narrative in Southern France: Tristan at Saint-Floret"

Images available. Please contact the Center for Medieval Studies for a copy of the inscriptions.

October

Workshop:
An informal discussion with Professor Rachel Jacoff on Paradiso VII.
This event is co-sponsered by the Center for Jewish Studies.

To be discussed are the original text for Canto VII (in translation by Charles Singleton) and Singleton's commentary. For a copy, please contact the Center for Medieval Studies.

Professor Jacoff will also give a lecture today at 4 p.m.

Workshop:
Join Professor Nina Rowe for a discussion on "Luxury and Derision: Devotional Ivories and the Denigration of Jews".
This event is co-sponsered by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Professor Rowe will also give a lecture Thursday, October 14.