| Past Lectures and Conference:
Spring 2008
Lecture: "Mythology and Biblical Exegesis in a Medieval
Schoolroom"
Robert G. Babcock, Edwin J. Beinecke Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Yale University.
January 17, 2008
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Lecture: "Twelfth-century Prior Meets Eighth-century Hermit: Alexander of Ashby's Life of St. Guthlac"
Sarah Downey, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
January 23, 2008
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Lecture: "Preaching the Gospel: Augustine of Hippo, His Audience, and His Readers"
Hildegund Müller, Research Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences, CSEL.
February 4, 2008
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Lecture: "Stephen Langton's Commentary on the Sentences in the Light of His Quaestiones"
Riccardo Quinto, Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Padua.
February 7, 2008
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Medieval Hebrew Poetry Reading by Peter Cole
Peter Cole, 2007 MacArthur Fellow, poet, translator, coeditor of Ibis Editions
March 18, 2008
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Lecture: "‘There is food in Egypt! It is floating down the river!’ Notes on Judeo-Spanish Belles-lettres and the Medieval Coplas de Yosef"
Luis Girón Negrón, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
April 10, 2008
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Seminar: Love's Leap: Incarnational Poetics in Late Medieval England
2007-08 Medieval Institute Mellon Fellow Cristina Maria Cervone, Assistant Professor of English, Villanova University, led a seminar
discussion of her manuscript, Love's Leap: Incarnational Poetics in Late Medieval England, with a
panel of three scholars. Joining Prof. Cervone as respondents to her work were:
Gary Macy, John Nobili, S.J. Professor of Theology, Santa Clara University
Alastair Minnis, Professor of English, Yale University
Andrew Galloway, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Cornell University.
April 26, 2008
Lecture: "Mediterranean Influences on Northern French Culture: Southern Italians, Spaniards and Muslims in the Accounts of Count Robert II of Artois, 1291-1302"
Sharon Farmer, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
May 5, 2008
List of Previous Lectures and Conferences
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
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