Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.* […]

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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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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 – […]

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