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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A talk by Professor Shifra Armon Entre Nos series sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department Wednesday November 9 3 pm Dauer 240A –When you resorted to force, … you didn’t know where you were going. If you got deeper and deeper, there was just no limit except … the limitations of force itself.* […]
A lecture by Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University) Wednesday, 2 November, 5:30 pm, Marston Visualization Lab (L136) The motif of barbarians invading from the endless wastes of the north is an ancient motif in the historical traditions of Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and East Asian civilizations. This becomes particularly clear in Late Antiquity and the early […]
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Sergiu Musteață, public lecture on “The Soroca stronghold between Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and Muscovy” Thursday, November 3, 5:00-6:00 pm Judaica Suite, Smathers Library (East) Sergiu MUSTEAŢĂ is an archaeologist from the Republic of Moldova, Professor and Dean of the History and Geography Faculty, of the „Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University of Moldova. He holds […]
Friday, September 30, 4-5 pm, 150 Pugh Hall Ken Silverman of Classics discussing ἅγιον πνεῦμα παιδείας : The Wisdom of Solomon, and Education in Hellenistic Alexandria and Palestine The Wisdom of Solomon is a late-Hellenistic addition to the proverbial and poetic literature attributed to king Solomon. My paper will focus on how this book interacts with Hellenistic philosophy, and how it responds […]
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As last year, MEMS will sponsor a series of Graduate Student talks. This year, we have two different co-ordinators to whom graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. This is a splendid opportunity to sound out ideas or get practice on the way to a more formal presentation. In the Fall, Rachel Walkover (History – […]