Medieval matters lecture: Nov 4, 7:00-9:00 pm, Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105, Stanford [audio]
- Teofilo Ruiz, ULCA: Time and the end of the world: heresy and apocalypse in medieval Europe [flyer]. Tracing the history of heretical and apocalyptic movements, orthodoxy and dissent in Western Europe from early Christianity to the Inquisition.
- Free and open to the public.
- Prof. Ruiz is the author of Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300–1474, the Carnegie Foundation Outstanding Professor of the Year, and a UCLA Distinguished Teacher.
- Sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Office for Religious Life, and the Sarum Seminar.
Seminar: Oct 12, 2010. 7-8:30pm. At CASBS (more info)
- Emma Campion (aka Candace Robb): Intriguing Reputations: Reconsidering the Reputations of Alice Perrers and Joan of Kent. Campion is a writer and historian with a focus on 14th century Britain. She currently is writing historical novels about medieval women of intriguing reputations. The first of these novels is "The King’s Mistress" (published in July 2010), a novel about Alice Perrers, who was the mistress of King Edward III. Campion is now working on a novel of another 14th century noblewoman, Joan of Kent. Writing under the name Candace Robb, she is also the author of the popular Owen Archer mysteries and the Margaret Kerr trilogy.
- After her talk CASBS Fellow and social psychologist Gary Allen Fine will serve as discussant. Fine is a professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept and Controversial (2001) and The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter (2010).
- The Stanford Bookstore will be selling copies of these books at the event so that you can have yours signed after the talks.
Seminar: Sep. 23, 7-9pm at CASBS (bring your own supper, any time after 6pm)
- Elaine and Randy Kriegh: Sacred Stones Come to California.
- A medieval Cistercian chapter house is being re-built here in northern California after a long and circuitous journey from Spain. The Krieghs will report on the progress of this fascinating project as well as relate the story of how these stones came to be here. They will also show pictures from their recent visit to the site. You can do a bit of background reading before their talk at this Wikipedia website: Abbey_of_New_Clairvaux.
Seminar: Thursday, May 6, 7-9pm at CASBS (bring your own supper, any time after 6pm)
- Michael Wyatt (Associate Director, Stanford Center for Medieval & Early Modern Studies): The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.
- The small but influential community of Italians in England during the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers, and many others. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a hospitable and productive haven. Michael Wyatt’s book (published by Cambridge University Press, 2005) examines the agency of this shifting community of immigrant Italians in the transmission of Italy's cultural patrimony and its impact on the nascent English nation, as well as the exemplary career of John Florio, the Italo-Englishman who was a language teacher, lexicographer, and translator in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. This talk will focus on the presence and traces of Italian artists in fifteenth- and sixteenth century England.
- A Stanford PhD in Italian (2000), Michael has taught at Northwestern and Wesleyan, and is a former fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, in Florence. In addition to The Italian Encounter, he is co-editor of Writing Relations, American Scholars in Italian Archives. He is currently editing the interdisciplinary Cambridge Companion Guide to the Italian Renaissance; co-editing 'Devils Incarnate or Saints Angelifide'? Anglo-Italian Transactions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; writing John Florio and the Circulation of Stranger Cultures in Stuart England; and collaborating on a documentary film dedicated to Sicilian puppet theater, the opera dei pupi.