Friday, April 11: Torsten Edstam, PhD candidate, Department of History “Beyond the Didascalicon: Hugh of St Victor and Reading Culture in the Low Countries” Respondent: Jenna Timmons, PhD student, Department of History Wieboldt 207   *SPECIAL EVENT* Friday, April 25: Frits van Ostroom, University Professor for the Humanities, Utrecht University “After Huizinga: The Low Countries […]

Welcome back to Winter Quarter! Please mark the following dates on your calendar. NB: we will be meeting in both CWAC 152 AND Wieboldt 207, 12:00-1:30pm.   Winter Jan 10- Prof. Robert Mills, Department of Art History, University College London “Cows, Martyrs, and Other Animals: The ‘Anthropological Machine’ in Medieval Art” 12:00-1:30pm, CWAC 152 Respondent: […]

The Medieval Studies Workshop, in conjunction with the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop, invites you to join us Friday, November  1.     Laura Fernandez Fernandez Assistant Professor of Art History,  Universidad Complutense de Madrid   “Arab stars in a Castilian Sky:  The Book of Fixed Stars  amongst the manuscripts of Alfonso X”   12-1:30pm Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room […]

The Lumen Christi Institute presents a master class on   The Writings of Meister Eckhart   Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Friday, October 25, 2:00pm-5:30pm Gavin House, 1220 East 58th Street   In this one-off seminar session participants will discuss the writings of late medieval German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327).   Session 1. An Introduction to Eckhart “Introductions” in The Essential Sermons, pp. 5-61 […]