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Medieval Studies

This seminar exists primarily for the purpose of discussing problems which are of common interest to all branches of medieval studies. The seminar particularly encourages interdisciplinary topics and approaches which will stimulate discussions of issues in the study of medieval culture. One of the great advantages of the seminar is that it brings together representatives of medieval disciplines, from Columbia and elsewhere, who otherwise would have only rare opportunities to talk about questions of common interest.

Seminar: #431
Founded: 1954

Seminar Administration

Co Chairs:
Susan Boynton
Associate Professor
Columbia University, Department of Music
212 854 7186
slb184@columbia.edu

Holger Klein
Professor
Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology
(212) 854-3230
hak56@columbia.edu

Rapporteur:
Jeffrey Wayno
PhD Candidate
Columbia University, Department of History
jmw2202@columbia.edu

Meetings

SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, February 1 at 5:30pm
Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers) on "Early Medieval Ivories, Liturgy and the Five Senses" 

Wednesday, April 18 at 5:30pm
Dorothy Glass (University at Buffalo, SUNY) on "The Sculpture of the Baptistery at Parma, Innocent III and the University of Paris"

Wednesday, May 2 at 5:30pm
Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University) on "Empire, Evidence, and Oikoumene in Later Byzantium"


 
FALL 2011 SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, September 21 at 5:30pm
Louis Hamilton (Drew University) on "'You should be Aaron:' Exegesis, Reform, and the Second Crusade"

Tuesday, October 11 at 5:00pm
Judith Oliver (Colgate University), Michael Curschmann (Princeton University), and Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) on "Music and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages"

Wednesday, November 16 at 5:30pm
Jay Rubenstein (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) on "Rivers of Blood and Armies of Saints: Historical Narrative and the Invention of the First Crusade"

Tuesday, December 13 at 5:30pm
Paul Hayward (Lancaster University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) on "Chronicles, the Liturgy and Romanitas, c.900-1200"

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