Past Lectures and Conference: Fall 2008

2008 Conway Lecture: "The Templars and the  Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the  Holy Land,  1120-1291"

Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge

Every year, through the generosity of Robert M. Conway, a distinguished, senior medievalist offers a series of three lectures. Jonathan Riley-Smith is one of the world's leading authorities on the Crusades. His publications include The Atlas of the Crusades, The Crusades: A Short History, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading, and The First Crusaders.

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Conference: "Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at the Papal Court," XVth Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM)

October 8 through 10, 2008

For details about the conference (program, speakers, etc.), see the SIEPM Conference web page.

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Lecture: "Revising the Lectionary of Saints in Late Medieval England"

Sherry Reames, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

November 6, 2008

Prof. Reames's research has focused on Chaucer and his contemporaries; late-medieval religious literature; retellings of saints' legends in Latin and Middle English; medieval manuscripts, especially those written or used in England; and liturgical lessons and offices of saints--her current area of interest. Her publications include: The Legenda Aurea: A Reexamination of Its Paradoxical History (1985); "A Recent Discovery Concerning the Sources of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale,'" Modern Philology 87 (1989-90); "The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale," in Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (2002); Middle English Legends of Women Saints (annotated collection of texts, edited with the assistance of Martha G. Blalock and Wendy R. Larson, 2003); "Origins and Affiliations of the Pre-Sarum Office for Anne in the Stowe Breviary," in Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance (2004); and "Reconstructing and Interpreting a Thirteenth-Century Office for the Translation of Thomas Becket" Speculum 80 (2005).

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Lecture: "Islamo-Christian Civilization"

Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of History, Columbia University

November 14, 2008

Cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Prof. Bulliet specializes in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional history of Islamic countries, and the history of technology. Among his many publications are: A Moment in World History: Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran (in press); Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005); The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004); "Iran between East and West," Journal of International Affairs, 60:2 (2007), 1-14; "Conversion-based Partronage and Onomastic Evidence," in Patronate and Patronage in Early and Classical Islam, eds. Monique Bernards and John Nawas, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005, 246-62; and "Women and the Urban Religious Elite in the Pre-Mongol Period," Guity Nashat and Lois Beck, eds., Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003

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