Medieval Studies at Princeton University

 

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Current Semester

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
February 7
Thursday
*Alain Boureau, EHESS
Commentator:  Kathleen Biddick, Temple University

“Fear as a Passion of the Soul in Scholastic Thought”

   
February 13
Wednesday
Alan Stahl "The Economics of Minting"
(Professional Development Lunch; RSVP to Jamie Kreiner jkreiner@princeton.edu or Chris Kurpiewski ckurpiew@princeton.edu)
Firestone Special Collections 12:00 pm
February 21-23
Thursday - Saturday
 

Mysticism, Reform, and the Formation of Modernity

Conference details, poster

010 East Pyne  
February 21
Thursday
**Maria Menocal, Yale University “The ‘Finest Flowering’: Poetry, History, and Medieval Spain” 127 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 4
Tuesday
David Wallace, University of Pennsylania

“Borderline Sanctity:  Dorothea of Montau (1347-94); George Eliot, Cardinal Ratzinger, and Günter Grass”

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 5
Wednesday
  Graduate Colloquium

Contact: Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu) or Chris Kurpiewsk (ckurpiew@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
March 11
Tuesday
Guy Geltner, Oxford University “Brethren Behaving Badly:  A Deviant Approach to Antifraternalism” 209 Scheide Caldwell 4:30 pm
March 14,15
Friday, Saturday
  LOOKING BEYOND, Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History
Conference details
   
March 25
Tuesday
Christopher Cannon, Cambridge University/New York University

“Langland’s Ars Grammatica:  Literary Practice and Schoolroom Texts”

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:30 pm
March 28-29
Friday, Saturday

 

“Landscapes of the Saints” Hagiography and Land in the Near East and Europe Ca. 500-900”    
April 2
Wednesday
  Graduate Colloquium

Contact: Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu) or Chris Kurpiewsk (ckurpiew@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
April 5
Saturday
Graduate Conference "Coming Together: Taverns, Leisure, and Public Gathering in the Middle Age"
Conference details
Scheide Caldwell House 9:30 am
April 15
Tuesday
Giovanni Freni, Index of Christian Art

"From Terrific Death to the Angels’Care: Interpreting Images of the Soul’s Ordeal through the Categories of Allegorical Poetry"

  4:30 pm
April 16
Wednesday
Angela Gleason "Giving a Talk"
(Professional Development Lunch; RSVP to jkreiner@princeton.edu or ckurpiew@princeton.edu)
210 Dickinson Hall 12:00 pm

* Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars – Pre-circulated papers available from Jennifer Houle, G-13 Dickinson Hall, or e-mail jhoule@princeton.edu one week prior to lecture.

** Denotes events not sponsored or co-sponsored by the Program

Meeting dates for the Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and Culture Colloquium will be announced on the Web.  Please check the web for updates of events.