The Sarum Seminar is an ever-evolving program for enthusiasts of Gothic cathedrals and medieval life. It began with a 1994 course on Salisbury Cathedral taught by Robert Scott through Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program. That first class has been together ever since, and new people join every month. All are welcome!
 

Activities
		Our primary activities are a series of seminars and meetings, a newsletter, and this web site. Meetings are held in or near Palo Alto, California, roughly once a month during the academic year. They feature talks on architecture, music, and history by university professors, professional practitioners and original research by the seminar's own members. The seminars and meetings calendar includes information about both future and past talks. The group members also hold occasional pot-luck gatherings and attend concerts together.  The group also produces an occasional newsletter. Membership You can join us by applying at any meeting.  Here's our membership information form. For more information, please contact the membership chair at Keeping in touch To get email or physical notices of seminars and special events, please send email to our membership chair.  Please include your postal address, because some communications are only available in hard copy.  We maintain a group email list . To reduce spam, only people on the list may send to it. To get added to the email list, change your email address, or to get taken off, send your request to the membership chair. The group maintains a list of interesting web links and related information sources. These web pages are hosted by e-wilkes.com for the Sarum Seminar group. Please send things for inclusion to John Wilkes at .
Other resources
		2007-08-12 Dick Jones, Within the Spire, Looking Down. An article published in the 2007 edition of Spire, the annual publication of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral. The course that got this all started Bob Scott's Gothic Cathedrals and Great Churches of England, 1150-1350 Stanford University Continuing Studies course. Bob Scott's course has evolved into a book, The Gothic Enterprise, published by University of California Press in 2003.  Most of the photographs and artwork in the book were supplied by seminar members.  Its bibliography is an updated version of the one originally provided for Bob's course. Cindy Davis has made available her wonderful pictures from the 2001 Salisbury and Cotswolds trip. Virginia Jansen's art history courses at the University of Santa Cruz include some wonderful materials. Her online courses include: Gothic cathedrals and Romanesque architecture. Pointers to other web pages and related information sources that were submitted by the Sarum participants, as well as Dick Jones' Medieval Miracle Cookies recipe. Trips to Salisbury and the Cotswolds (England) In the past, the Sarum group participated in trips to the UK, under the expert guidance of Robert Scott, former Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Julia Fremon, under the auspices of their company The Sarum Seminar. Salisbury information Salisbury Cathedral - the official web site. Sarum College, in the Salisbury Cathedral Close, where the Sarum Seminar trips were based; contact them for friendly accommodation in a magical setting. Marion Roberts' The Salisbury Project at the University of Virginia: a superb collection of Salisbury-related plans and images. More information about Salisbury can be found at Visit Salisbury and Salisbury Today.
Group organization
		The Sarum Seminar is a collaborative effort, with roles distributed across the following volunteer group officers: Group chair: Julia Fremon Seminar program committee: Linda Jack, Ann Jones, and Evelyn McMillan Treasurer: Julia Fremon Membership and communications: Elaine Kriegh and Lola Stephens Newsletter editor: Evelyn McMillan Pot luck meetings: Lynne Carr Website and email list: John Wilkes Academic advisor: Robert Scott General advisor: Julia Fremon