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The Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies is
an interdisciplinary lecture series organized by the Medieval
Studies Program at Yale University. The mission of the
series is to bring to Yale America’s most creative scholars
of the Middle Ages to present innovative and exciting
work in fields such as paleography, codicology,
liturgical studies, music, history of art, archaeology,
history, literature, and philosophy. The series, which
is organized by students in medieval disciplines, emphasizes
intellectual diversity and rigorous scholarship and is
a vital part of Yale’s interdisciplinary approach to the
medieval period.
The Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies
is generously supported by the Medieval Studies Program,
the Institute for Sacred Music, the Office of the University
Secretary, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library.
Previous Lectures
January 30, 2008
Maria Rosa Menocal
Sterling Professor of Humanities
Yale University
"Finest Flowering": Poetry and Medieval Spain
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
February 20, 2008
Daniel Lord Smail
Professor of History
Harvard University
"Emotions and Somatic Gestures in Medieval Narratives: The Case of Raoul de Cambrai"
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
March 4, 2008
Bernard McGinn
Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity
University of Chicago Divinity School
"The Evangelical Pearl: The Last Masterpiece of
Medieval Women's Mysticism"
Room 108, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
March 28, 2008
Roger Wright
Professor of Spanish
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool, UK
"Bilingualism and Diglossia in the Iberian
Peninsula, 300-1350"
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
4:30 p.m., reception to follow
April 9, 2008
Roger S. Wieck
Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
The Morgan Library and Museum
"The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon"
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
November
9, 2006
"Juggling the Middle Ages: The Reception of Our Lady's Tumbler and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame"
Jan Ziolkowski
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
October 24, 2006
"Piers Plowman and the Invention of London Literary Language"
Anne Middleton
Florence Green Bixby Professor of English Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
October 12, 2006
"The Idea of the Nation as a Political Community: New or Old"
Susan Reynolds
Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
September
28, 2006
"The Legacy of the School of Auxerre: Glossed Bibles, School Rhetoric, and the Universal Gilbert"
E. Ann Matter
Associate Dean of Arts and Letters and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
September
19, 2006
"Light at Sinai, Natural, Artifical, Divine"
Robert
Nelson
Robert Lehman Professor of Art History, Yale University
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
April 6th , 2006
"Druids: Ritual and the Enlightenment at Chartres"
Margot E. Fassler
Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History and Liturgy
and Professor of Musicology at the School of Music,
Yale University
LC 317
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
February 9, 2006
"The Blood of Wilsnack and the Fifteenth Century"
Caroline Walker Bynum
Professor of Western European Middle Ages, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Lecture Hall, Yale Center for British Art
5:00 p.m., reception to follow
October
6, 2005
“Visual Representation of Commerce and the Market in
Medieval Art”
Jonathan
J.G. Alexander
Sherman Fairchild Professor of Fine Arts, Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University
Room 317,
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
5:00 p.m., reception to follow
September
22, 2005
“Early Medieval History in the 21st Century: A Molecular
Approach”
Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard
University
Room
319,
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
5:30 p.m., reception to follow
April
14, 2005
“Grandees and Grocers: Elite and Popular Religion and
the Book of Hours in Late Medieval
England”
Eamon
Duffy
President of Magdalene College and Professor of
the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge
Eamon
Duffy is a leading authority on late medieval and early
modern religion. Published in 1992, his monumental book,
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in
England, 1400-1580 (Yale University Press) continues
to make a powerful contribution to study of the pre-Reformation
Church; the work was awarded the 1994 Longman’s History
Today Prize for the best historical work published in
Britain. His micro-history, The Voices of Morebath was
published in 2002 by Yale University Press. Analyzing
the impact of religious change on the lives of ordinary
people in this small hamlet, this moving work revisits
the fifty years between 1530 and 1580. Bringing a new
immediacy to our understanding of the impact of the
Reformation, this work was awarded the Hawthornden Prize
for Literature.
October 11, 2004
“Saint Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry”
Marie
Borroff
Sterling Professor of English Emeritus, Yale University
Marie
Borroff is the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University,
where she has taught since 1952. Borroff is an authority
on medieval English literature, being well-known for
her translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Patience, and Pearl; she has also published Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study
(Yale University Press, 1962). Professor Borroff is
a distinguished teacher whose lectures were videotaped
for the Yale Great Teachers Series. She has just published
a collection of her essays, Essays, Chiefly Medieval
(Yale University Press, 2005) and in 1995 was honored
with a festschrift.
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