wpadmin, Author at Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Engineering the Renaissance in Fall 2018

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Leonardo Da Vinci LINK TO SYLLABUS

Elite Settlement in Gaelic Ireland, 1169-1350

Elite Settlement in Gaelic Ireland, 1169-1350 AD Kieran O’Conor National University of Ireland. Galway The AIA Gainesville Society 6:00pm • Wednesday • February • 7th • 2018 University of Florida Campus • FAC 118 All lectures are free and open to the public • www.archaeological.org Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Samuel […]

MEMS on Facebook (& twitter &c.)

MEMS now has a Facebook page! Like us at https://www.facebook.com/MEMSUF/ to get updates– and join the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/123601328310428/ to discuss medieval & early modern topics, and even medievalisms– and subscribe to our twitter feed at https://twitter.com/MEMS_UF Instagram coming soon!

MEMS Grad Student Talks: Ioannes Dantiscus & the Reformation

Expanding Early Modern “Central” Europe: Dimensions of the Reformations in Poland-Lithuania Bryan Kozik, Ph.D. candidate in History Much of the scholarly treatment of early modern Central Europe has been divided anachronistically by modern geographical and linguistic boundaries, and it has fallen short of productively integrating the polities and peoples of “East” Central Europe into historical […]

FFW + MEMS: Parody as Protest in the Inferno

Fabian Alfie, lecture, “Cannibalism in Dante’s Inferno,” Judaica Library, 11/9, 3-5 pm. Fabian Alfie is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on medieval comic literature, and he has published books on on Cecco Angiolieri (2001) and Dante (Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice, University of Toronto […]

#HereIStand: Exhibit on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

Exhibit: “#Here I stand: Martin Luther, the Reformation and its Consequences” 2nd floor, Reitz Student Union. Now through October 31. These events are part of the FFW Campus Weeks events at UF, co-sponsored by MEMS For more information contact Will Hasty hasty@ufl.edu or join the FB Group: “Future of Freedom and Walls”

Summer B 2019 Study Abroad in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Medieval Studies Abroad in Summer 2019 Explorations in the Holy Roman Empire–A Walking History of Imperial Europe from the Romans to the Present. This Summer B study abroad program explores ways in which European cultural history has been organized around and shaped by Roman imperialism from the times of the Romans to the present day. This […]

Online MEMS Courses for Residential and UF Online Students

MEM 3300: Castles and Cloisters – An Introduction to Medieval Communities MEM 3301: Palaces and Cities – An Introduction to Early Modern Communities A brief introduction to MEM 3300 and MEM 3301 by Professors Will Hasty and Mary Watt

Among the MEMS courses in Spring 2018:

EUH 4584: Medieval Russia EUH 4930: Catastrophes in the Middle Ages CHT 3513: Taoism and Chinese Culture

FFW + MEMS: 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

Amy Nelson Burnett will lecture and participate in a panel discussion on Monday and Tuesday, November 13-14. There will also be an exhibit at the Reitz Union during this week. “Reform, Dissent, and Toleration: The Reformation as a Crisis of Authority,” Amy Nelson Burnett. Smathers 100, 11/13, 5 pm. “Freedom and Walls in Global Religious […]

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