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INTRODUCTION
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LECTURES
Medieval Studies Workshop 2007-2008
The Middle Ages: History, Legend, or Myth?
The fantasy of the medieval, in its inception and reception, is imbued by realities of the political--whether related to post colonialism , multiculturalism, national identity, class and race conflict, gender difference--and contextualized by the frames of its geographical and historical boundaries. The lecture series will focus on the points of historical and legendary or mythological intersection within the medieval, whether related to the legend of King Arthur, the historical reign of Charlemagne, or the imaging of Thomas Aquinas.
The Legend of King Arthur
Sept. 20, Thurs., 4:30 p.m., 117 HUM Geraldine Heng, Perceval Fellow in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture, and Director, Medieval Studies, University of Texas, "The Invention of Race in Medieval Romance"
Geraldine Heng has recently published a well-received book, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy, Columbia University Press, 2003, on the genesis and genealogy of medieval romance, in which she explores (among other issues) historiography, cultural trauma, the crusades, race, and empire-formation. Dr. Heng has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, Brown University's Pembroke Center, and the University of California's Humanities Research Institute.
Sept. 21, Fri. English Dept. Graduate Workshop on Romance, afternoon, TBA
The Legend of Charlemagne
Please follow this link to view the Charlemagne flyer in PDF format.
Feb. 7, Thurs., 4:30 p.m., 117 HUM Bailey Young, Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University, "From Gaul to Francia: Archaeology, Legend, and Ideology in the Construction of Frankish Identity"
Feb. 8 Fri 12-1 p.m. 117 HUM Lunch-bag Seminar on Medieval Archaeology
Bailey Young, who has studied Merovingian Archaeology at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes (IV Section) in Paris, worked for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and taught at the University of Paris XII and Lille III, conducts an internationally-known month-long summer medieval archaeology course with Dr. Raymond Brulet of the Université Catholiquede Louvain in Belgium, the Walhain-St. Paul Program, in which students excavate portions of a castle. He will speak about the role of the Merovingians in the construction of a Frankish/"French" identity between the time of Clovis and the twelfth to the thirteenth century, when the Capetians integrated them as royal ancestors.
The Legend of Thomas Aquinas
Please follow this link to view the Aquinas flyer in PDF format.
March 13, Thurs., 7 p.m., 117 HUM M. Michèle Mulchahey, Leonard E. Boyle Chair of Manuscript Studies, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, “The Image of Thomas Aquinas in Dominican Painting.” Keynote Speech, Third Annual Medieval Studies Undergraduate Symposium, cosponsored by the Philosophy Department. Reception to follow.
M. Michèle Mulchahey, recently Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, has become the first holder of the Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. She is a Rice alumna, having taken a double B.A. in Biology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 1979. In addition to her Ph.D. in Mediaeval Studies from the University of Toronto, she is one of twelve scholars to be granted the M.S.L.--a special pontifical doctorate in Mediaeval Studies--from the Pontifical Institute. She has held fellowships at such institutions as the American Academy in Rome and at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Her publications include a landmark book entitled "First the Bow is Bent in Study....": Dominican Education Before 1350; among her current projects are a book-length study of Dante's teacher, Remigio de' Girolami, as revealed through some newly-discovered manuscript survivals, and another on Jacopo Passavanti, a popular preacher in late-medieval Florence who was also responsible for bringing the church of Santa Maria Novella and its cloister to completion.
Third Annual Medieval Studies Undergraduate Symposium
Please follow this link to view the 2008 Medieval Studies Symposium schedule in PDF format.
March 14, Fri., 12 noon-6 p.m., 309 SEWELL
Seats at the Feast, Revels in the Hall
"Where are the seats at the feast? Where are the revels in the hall?"
-from "The Wanderer" (Old English poem)
The Medieval Studies Workshop operates within Rice University's Humanities Research Center and is responsible for organizing and funding speakers, special events, and reading groups on topics related to medieval studies. Periodically since its inception the Workshop has hosted a thematic conference, symposium, or lecture series, more recently titled the Neil J. O'Brien Symposium on Medieval Studies. Past workshops:
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Peter V. Loewen, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, "Singing in a Fool's Paradise: Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Domini in Dramas from England, the German Lands, and Bohemia
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Katherine L. Jansen, History Dept., Catholic University of America , “Mary Magdalene, Apostle”
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Theresa Coletti, English Dept., University of Maryland College Park , “Mary Magdalene: Text and Performance in Late Medieval England
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Steven Justice, English Depart., University of California Berkley, "What Is Literary History and Why Aren't We Doing It?"
For archived Medieval Workshops and Lectures ( 1982-1987) please click here.
Medieval Studies Film Series (2005-2006)
For more information on the Program in Medieval Studies at Rice University, please contact:
Professor Eva Haverkamp,
Department of History - MS 42
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
(713) 348-8085
haver@rice.edu
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