Meetings 2006

Joint seminar: Tuesday 14 Nov 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Stanford Campus, Pigott Hall, Room 113. (Pigott Hall is Building 260 in the Language Corner across Lasuen Mall from the School of Education and the Clock Tower.)

  • Norbert Nussbaum, author of German Gothic Church Architecture (ISBN 0300083211): Patterns of Modernity: German Late Gothic Architecture Reconsidered.
  • A wine and cheese party will follow the lecture.

Seminar: Monday 16 Oct 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Parish Hall of Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos (directions)

  • DaVinci-Code-themed night Current presenters include Rev. Evelyn Vigil about myths and scholarship on Mary Magdalene, Marion Harris on St. Suplice, Dick Harte on the Cathars, and Ann Jones on a comparison between some of the sculpture at Temple Church, London and the Salisbury Chapter House.

Seminar: Monday 11 Sep 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Parish Hall of Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos (directions)

  • Bob Scott and his latest thoughts on Cathedrals as Expressions of Monumental Building, and
  • Ann Jones with Beaming or Screaming: Emotion and Gesture in Images of the Last Judgment.

Seminar: Monday 22 May 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Learning center (off the courtyard) of Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos (directions)

  • Christy Junkerman (San Jose State, and Stanford Continuing Studies) on: The transition from Gothic to Renaissance.

Seminar: Monday 17 April 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Learning center (off the courtyard) of Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos (directions)

  • Maureen Miller (Director of Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley History Department) on: Towers into Palaces: Spolia in the Episcopal Residences of Ravenna and Florence.

Seminar: Tuesday 21 March 2006, 7-9pm (doors open at 6pm). Location: Learning center (off the courtyard) of Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos (directions)

  • Virginia Jansen (Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz) on: Steelyards and fondaci: Embassy Suites of the Middle Ages.

Seminar: Monday 13 February 2006, 4:30-6:30pm and 7-9pm. Location: Stanford Green Library, Medieval room (map).

  • Rega Wood (Research Professor in the Philosophy Department at Stanford): Incipient Anglicana: adventures in the origins of a medieval script.
  • This is your chance to not only hear about a very interesting topic, but also find out about the resources in the Medieval Room. This is a small room, so there is a limit of 10 people at each session.

Singers Seminar, Music Seminar, and potluck: Saturday, 21 January 2006, 3-9 PM. Location: Home of Ann and Dick Jones

  • Singers Seminar 3-6pm: In addition to those who have been on a singing trip to Salisbury, other Early Music Singers are invited to join the group. Bill Mahrt promises some of the music we've sung on trips as well as something new. Non-singers are welcome to come and listen, but are especially invited to the ...
  • Music Seminar 5:15pm: a mini-performance of the music that's been rehearsed in addition to words of wisdom from Bill.
  • Potluck 6:30-9pm: also be at Ann and Dick's.