Kelli Wood: Parody, Pleasure, and Play in Print:Game Boards in Counter-Reformation Italy Thursday, April 6 Digital Worlds Institute–Norman Gym, Room 120 Refreshments will be served This talk explores the emergence of printed gameboards in Rome in the last decades of the sixteenth century in the context of a multiplicity of audiences engaged with both a […]
MEMS is sponsoring a session at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018) Matt Koval is responsible for organizing and presiding over this session, which includes UF’s Ethan Williamson: Friday, May 11, 10 AM, Session 194: Networks of Religious Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe during the Middle […]
MEMS Graduate Student Talk “Ekphrasis in Ivory: ‘Reading’ Fourteenth Century Representations of La châtelaine de Vergi.” by Philip Allen (Department of Spanish and Portuguese). Friday, March 24, in Pugh 150, from 4-5 pm. La châtelaine de Vergi is a short romance which tells the love affair between an anonymous knight and the niece of the […]
Professor Hahn will give a lecture in the Death: Confronting the Great Divide series on March 16, and will also hold a lunch seminar on March 17. Relics and Reliquaries: A Matter of Life and Death Cynthia Hahn (CUNY, Hunter College) Thursday, 16 March, 6:00 pm, Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum) A not unusual modern response […]
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Rothman Fellowship Brown-Bag Series Ralph Patrello, 2016-2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Department of History) Dressing the Part: The So-Called “Aquitanian” Plate Buckles and Personhood in Early Medieval Gaul Wednesday, 1 March, 12:00-1:00 pm, Walker Hall 200 The elaborately-decorated belt buckles of southern Gaul (modern France between the Loire River and Pyrenees) have long been a focus […]
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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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