Friday, November 20 at 4:00 PM in Pugh 160,the third MEMS Graduate Student Talk of the semester Tim Blanton (History) “Whose Time? Which Past?: Some Reflections on Medieval and Modern Historiographies of Time” We are constantly under the surveillance of clocks. We wake up in the morning to the sound of an alarm; we anxiously […]
Friday, October 30, at 4:00 PM in Pugh 160, the second of our MEMS Graduate Student Talks Ken Silverman (Classics) “…steep my senses in forgetfulness”: The Temptation of Shakespeare’s King Henry IV The king of 2 Henry IV is a very sick man. The anxieties of containing a civil war, of suspecting the intentions of […]
We would like to extend a warm invitation to a lecture which forms part of the Graduate Student Talks Series (formerly known as “Stammtisch”). Joanie Murta from the Classics department will be presenting “Writing Political Assassination in the Middle Ages: An exploration of the Monographic Historiography of Galbert of Bruges and Guibert of Nogent” in […]
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Image: Sandow Birk, “On the Steps of Purgatory.” Giuseppe Mazzotta –Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian; Chair, Department of Italian, Yale University– Dante and the Future Thursday, November 20, 2014 5pm-7pm Judaica Suite (Smathers Library East Second Floor) Presented by: Italian Studies in the Department of Languages and Literatures co-sponsored by the Isser and […]
The MEMS in Mannheim Program in Summer B 2015. Info Session on February 5, 3-4 p.m., in UFIC Small Conference Room Participate in the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Study’s summer program abroad in Mannheim, Germany. Earn six credits working closely with UF faculty as you make excursions to sites of interest in the […]
Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at UF is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of medieval and early modern European culture and its influences on the modern world. This approach addresses the distinctive forms of cultural organization in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods; the study necessarily crosses departmental boundaries.
Albertus Paludis, Knight of the Swamp, represents the playful aspect of MEMS. After you have learned a thousand years of history and a few languages, you can rock the swamp!