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SPRING 2006 |
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January |
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Thursday,
January 26
6 PM
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Medieval Studies Get-Together |
Tequila Cove |
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February |
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Friday, February
3
4:30 PM
(Reception; Dinner to follow at the home
of David and Pam Benson) |
Lecture:
"Reading in the Wilderness: The Drama of
Devotion in
a 15th c. Illustrated Miscellany" Jessica Brantley (Yale
University)
Professor Brantley works on Old and Middle
English literature, with an emphasis on the material culture of
medieval
reading as it is preserved in manuscript books. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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March |
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Thursday, March
23
2 PM |
Dissertation
Defense: "'Wormys mete is his body':
Enacting the Diseased Spirit of Herod the Great on the Late Medieval English
Stage"
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Wednesday, March
29
4 PM
(Reception; Dinner to follow at the home
of Bob Hasenfratz) |
Lecture:
"Vision, Intercession and Postmortem Judgment: The Line
Drawings of the New Minster Liber vitae"
David Johnson
(Florida State University) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, March
31
9:30 AM - 3
PM |
Medieval Studies Outreach Seminar:
"The Poor and the Idea of Poverty in Ancient and Medieval Society" |
University of Connecticut
Thomas J. Dodd
Research Center
Konover
Auditorium
Storrs, CT |
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April |
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Monday, April 3
4
PM
(Reception to follow at the home
of Jean Givens) |
Lecture: "Edward I and the Structure
of the Past: English Royal
Genealogies and Claim to Scotland"
Joan Holladay (University of Texas)
Professor Holladay is an art
historian
who works on medieval Germany. Her research interests include Gothic
art in
Germany and France and sculpture and manuscript illumination of the late
thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. |
University of Connecticut
Art Building 106
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, April 14
4 PM
(Reception to follow) |
Lecture: "Anglo-Irish Honor Politics and
Its European Contexts, 1541-1641"
Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut, Department of
History) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, April 21
4:15 PM |
Dissertation
Defense: "Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in
Medieval English Theology and Literature"
Josh Eyler |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
