Musicology Colloquium Friday, February 24th – 1:55pm | Friends of Music Guest Speaker Dr. M. Jennifer Bloxam – Williams College “From Sinner to Saint: Ritual and Narrative in a Mass for Margaret of Austria” This lecture presents a comparative exploration of two versions of the Mary Magdalene story, told using two of the most […]
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Note: Marjolaine Raguin will not be visiting the UF campus. However, she will still give her March 1 lecture, via internet. Public Lecture – Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 5:30 pm, Marston Visualization Lab (L136) Criticism of the Albigensian Crusade in Occitan Crusading Lyrics Already marked as different by contemporary participants and witnesses, the Albigensian crusade was […]
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Death: Confronting the Great Divide Preparing for Death: Reflections on Possession and Loss in Late Antiquity Isabel Moreira (University of Utah) Thursday, 16 February, 5:30 pm, Smathers Library 100 As the biblical phrase has it, death (‘the day of the Lord’) will come like a thief in the night. But for those who had the […]
The following MEMS sections will be offered in the Summer B term 2017: Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages: MEM3931 sec 4B95 (also EUH 3942) Professor Florin Curta (History) For full information, see this description: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/fcurta/Practicum.html Migration, Mobility, and Travel: MEM 3931 sec. 4C18 (also EUH 3931) Professor Joseph Houle (History) Migration, mobility, and […]
MEMS Graduate Student Talks Francesc Morales, “Run to the Hills: Refugees and Demographic Movements in a Napoleonic Siege” Friday, Feb. 3 4 PM Pugh 160 Between 1808 and 1809 the Napoleonic troops in Spanish territory started a struggle that represented a challenge for Napoleon I. I am focusing in the demographic consequences in one of […]
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Marina Rustow will be visiting UF on January 24 and 25. Lecture, “The Cairo Geniza and the Lost Arabic Archives” Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 PM, Smathers Library Judaica Suite. Among the many unexpected finds the Cairo Geniza has yielded are hundreds—possibly thousands—of medieval documents of state in Arabic script. Among these are decrees, rescripts, petitions, […]
The Rare Books collection of the UF Libraries has purchased a remarkable facsimile of an early parchment manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy, MS1102 from the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. The text of this 14th-century codex includes all three cantiche, but only the 34 Inferno illuminations were completed. They are in a deluxe Bolognese style, and […]
MEMS Graduate Student Talks: Rachel Walkover: “Chrétien de Troyes Goes to Burgundy: Erec et Enide and Cligès at the Court of Philip the Good” Friday December 2, 4-5 pm, in Pugh 160. The relationship between a work of literature and the society for which it was created is undeniable. Slimmed down from a larger MA […]
At Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, D.C., on October 13, Florin Curta, a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida, delivered the Byzantine studies program’s annual public lecture. For more information, and a video of this lecture, check out the following site: Looking for the Nomads: Florin Curta […]
Wednesday, November 2nd, 6pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art A lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Chipps Smith Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of Texas at Austin Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History Painted and carved portraits of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) adorned the exterior and interior decorative programs of over 30 princely, state, […]
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