Love in Medieval Western Literature

Love in Medieval Western Literature

Designed at taught by Sergi Sancho Fibla

Denis de Rougemont once said it, and George Duby repeated it: “Europe discovered Love in the 13th century”. Such a statement might be daring to anyone not familiar with medieval literature, but here you will be able to check that it isn’t completely false. But what about Catullus or Ovid? What about Platon and Sappho? And besides, do you believe, like Rougemont, that “happy love has no history in Western Literature”? Do you think that the myth of Love in Europe is that of an unfulfilled and adulterous Passion? Do we only have stories of fatal Love? Can we find the seed of the current love stories in the so-called “birth of Love” of the 11th century?

In our course we will not only study medieval texts in historical and philosophical context, but also compare them to other works of literature, cinema, essays, music, etc.

Read more at: http://collegiumvolatile.com/?page_id=235

Students are expected to read all the required texts and presentations (Powerpoint with voice comments) and take active part in all discussions on chat and forum at least twice a week (the schedule for these virtual meetings will be set by everyone once the course will be started). Every week a Powerpoint presentation will give instructions for the assignments as well as introduce all the required and optional texts for the week.

The assignments will consist of writing a classical report of at least, 600 words related to the topic dealt during the week.

Workload: max. 3-4 hours per week.

Sergi Sancho Fibla, researcher of the Department of Humanities in Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) with a predoctoral fellowship from La Generalitat de Catalunya since 2011. He studied Humanities and graduated as MA on “Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Thought” in UPF. Currently, Sergi is working on his doctoral thesis about the relationship between image, text, memory and meditation in medieval works, especially in Marguerite of Oingt’s works. He is a member of the Investigation Group “Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophia Alois Maria Haas”, and coordinator of “Forma: Journal of Humanities”. Contact:: sergi.sancho(at)upf.edu

We start on 18 February. This course takes 8 weeks to complete.

To enroll visit the course´s homepage: http://www.coursesites.com/s/_lovemedliterature 

Tuition fee: 700 DKK / 90 EUR / 110 USD payable via PayPal or credit card.

Collegium Volatile is a community of academic teachers and open-minded students. We share knowledge and teaching experience. We do not offer degrees. We teach online. Visit us at: http://collegiumvolatile.com/

PREMI

PREMI, the Pre-Modern Institute (formerly MEMI) is pleased to announce the first annual Virtual Symposium on Pre-Modern Studies, “Catastrophe, Calamity and Chaos in the Pre-Modern World.”

This interdisciplinary conference will feature presentations on topics ranging from the Plague of Justinian to the eruption of Huanynaputina, addressing cultural artifacts from the Chimalpahin codex to the York Judgement Play.The entire first session is devoted to the Early Middle Ages.

Co-sponsored by the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, the symposium will take place on February 9, 2013, between 9:30 and 11:30 AM MST.

Presentations will be available in advance on the Symposium website. The symposium time will be devoted to discussion of the previously-available presentations. 

The following is a link to a detailed presentation schedule and information on virtual attendance:
https://landing.athabascau.ca/groups/profile/145592/first-annual-virtual-symposium-on-pre-modern-studies

Anyone in the Edmonton area is welcome to join in person, on the University of Alberta campus, in Tory 2-58.

Refreshments/breakfast will be provided to in-person attendees, so please arrive at Tory 2-58 closer to 9 AM!

Felice Lifshitz, Ph.D.

Professor, Women's Studies and Religious Studies

Graduate Coordinator, Religious Studies

Director, MEMI (Medieval and Early Modern Institute)

University of Alberta

1-02F Assiniboia Hall

Edmonton AB T6G 2E7

Canada

780-492-0593

felice.lifshitz@ualberta.ca

skype: felice.lifshitz or felice.lifshitz59

 

Editor, History Compass (http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1478-0542&site=1)

Putting England in its Place....

More Staffordshire

In case you missed it: New discoveries apparently belonging to the Staffordshire hoard have been announced:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-20764132

Qur'an conference

The University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies

Return to the Origins: The Qur'ān's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity 20 - 21 January 2013, The University of Nottingham A meeting of leading international scholars dedicated to the question of how the Quran relates to forms of Judaism and Christianity of its time. Conference information Registration information Registration fees Booking online Conference contact Conference information This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the School of Humanities, at The University of Nottingham. Speakers Mehdi Azaiez, University of the Provence (IREMAN) Islam Dayeh, Free University, Berlin Gerald Hawting, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Angelika Neuwirth, Free University, Berlin Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame Nicolai Sinai, Oxford University Guy Stroumsa, Oxford University (respondent) Joseph Witztum, The Hebrew University Holger Zellentin, University of Nottingham More information about the conference… Registration information Registration Fees Full Registration (2 days) - £50 Day Delegate Registration - £25 Reduced Student Registration (2 days) - £30 Reduced Student Day Delegate Registration - £15 All registration fees include access to all talks each day, coffee, tea and biscuits, and a fork lunch. Conference Dinner - all delegates will have the option of booking to attend the conference dinner at an additional cost of £24. Accommodation - this will be available for delegates to book at the Orchard Hotel on campus. Cancellation Policy You may cancel your registration with a full refund up to 15 January 2012. After 15 January 2012 cancellation will result in forfeiture of entire payment. Booking online now Please place your booking via The University Of Nottingham online store. More information about registration… Conference contact Dr Holger Zellentin t: 0115 846 8935 e: holger.zellentin@nottingham.ac.uk

Crossing the Languages of Medieval Europe:
Historical, Linguistic and Literary Approaches

3-8 June 2013
The Belgian Academy, Rome

Medieval Europe was marked by far-ranging linguistic diversity.  Religion, ethnicity, conquest, gender, profession, socio-economic position, and literary form, among many factors, all shaped and were shaped by language choices and intercultural exchanges. From Iceland to the Eastern Mediterranean, these factors combined in varying ways across the sacred and secular languages of a Europe already engaged beyond its permeable and never clearly defined borders.

This summer school seeks to open-up and conceptualize this linguistic diversity in order to challenge the established paradigms within which the disciplines of history, linguistics and literature study and teach the medieval past.  Students, tutors  and lecturers will be drawn from different disciplinary, chronological and geographical specialisms. The aim of the summer school is to go beyond the personal specialisms in order to bring different expertises into a productive and creative dialogue.  Because of the interdisciplinary collaboration new questions of wider significance will be asked and explored. These new questions will, in turn, enrich each student’s own specialist research and help him to establish an international network as an early career researcher.

Possible themes include international languages, relationships of secular and sacred languages, readership and reading, linguistic borders, writing of vernacular languages, what constitutes a vernacular language, language and literary canonization, communication (scholarly, diplomatic, ecclesiastical, merchant and court, for examples), intellectual and literary consequences of multilingualism, impact of modern nationalisms, the EU and globalization on study of medieval languages.

PROGRAMMEThe summer school will be organized around lectures, discussion groups and time for informal talk.  In the mornings, lectures, all of which will be followed by a seminar of the whole group, will address large themes.  In the afternoon, smaller seminar groups, each led by a tutor, will work together over the course of the summer school on a series of case studies. There will be substantial reading in advance. Lunches and two dinners will be in common. There will be an excursion on Wednesday which is offered for free by the organizers.

Tutors are Jeroen Deploige (Ghent), Christian Høgel (Southern Denmark), Lars Boje Mortensen (Southern Denmark), Elizabeth Tyler (York), and Wim Verbaal (Ghent).  

The morning lectures will be delivered by Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus), Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews), Karla Mallette (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 
Applications 
Applications should be sent before the 1st February 2013 to Martine.DeReu@UGent.be

The summer school is open to PhD students of medieval European history, linguistics and literature. In addition to working in their research with texts in at least two medieval languages, students will be expected to read English and either French and/or German. Lectures and seminars will be held in English. Applications should include an abstract of the current research (no more than one side of A4, single spaced) and a statement addressing the contributions one can make to the summer school and what one hopes to gain from participating (no more than one side of A4, single spaced). One referee who will be willing to write in support of the application has to be named. Referees of short-listed applicants will be contacted directly by the organizers of the summer school.

Bursaries
Five bursaries (500€) and free shared accommodation in the Belgian Academy are available. Please address your application to Martine.DeReu@UGent.be before the 1st of February 2013. Which information do they have to provide (e.g. travel costs)? What will the criteria be (not for publication here, but one needs to know – probably most will write a double application: one for attending the summer school, one for a bursary).

Accomodation and transport 
Participants need to provide for their own lodging and transport. There is a limited number of free shared rooms available in the Belgian Academy which will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.

Useful information can be found on the following websites:
Belgian Academy: http://www.academiabelgica.it/ Hotels: http://www.venere.com/it/italia/roma/ http://www.romaviva.com/ http://www.romaonline.net/ 
Youth Hostels: http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/italy/rome/ http://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/Rome

Meals Lunches and two dinners will be provided by the organizers . The participants will take care of the other meals.


This project is organized by the Centre for Medieval Literarure and the H. Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies 

Marco Institute

The Eighth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, 
February 1 and 2, 2013, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the 
workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy 
M. Liuzza (English).

This year’s workshop focuses on practical manuscripts, or manuscripts as 
tools – classroom texts, collections of memoranda, recipes, or formulae, 
miscellanies, corrected or annotated texts, dog-eared and interleaved 
manuscripts, indices, running headings, and other signs of everyday use. 
We hope to explore new and old ways of interpreting such evidence, of 
reconstructing original contexts, and of imagining the relationship 
between reference and practice that such well-used books represent. What 
do the physical traces in books tell us about the people who used the 
books? Can we discern a history of pragmatic readers, builders, makers, 
and practitioners parallel to the history of the authors who write texts 
and scribes who create manuscripts? How do we read a manuscript as a 
living book with a busy life?

The following scholars will present their work:

Elizabeth Archibald (John Hopkins University) “Liber magistri: Text and 
Manuscript in Carolingian Classrooms”
W. Martin Bloomer (Notre Dame University) “Modeling reading: The 
commentary tradition on the use and abuse of the Distichs of Cato”
Kate Fedewa (University of Wisconsin) “School Work: Deciphering the 
Teacher, Student, and Text in Yale, Beinecke Library MS 3 (34)”
Matthew Giancarlo (University of Kentucky) “The Manuscripts of Peter 
Idley’s Works at Work, c. 1450”
Holly Johnson (Mississippi State University) “The Making of a ‘Model’ 
Sermon Collection: Robert Rypon and His Scribes and Readers.”
Karen Jolly (University of Hawai’i, Manoa) “Representing Durham 
Cathedral Library A.IV.19”
Clara Pascual-Argente (Rhodes College) “Nota exempla antiqua: Life at 
the Margins of Manuscript BNM 3666”
Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University) “A Tradition in Transition: British 
Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.I., Part II and Welsh Manuscript 
Production at the Turn of the Twelfth Century”

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any level who may be 
interested in learning more about textual scholarship through this 
informal discussion of practical examples. All workshop events, 
including lunches on Friday and Saturday and a reception on Friday 
night, are free, but registration is required; dinner on Friday evening 
is available for an additional charge. Please visit 
http://web.utk.edu/~marco for more information, or contact Roy M. 
Liuzza, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung 
Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, email rliuzza@utk.edu.

The workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and 
Renaissance Studies, and is supported by the Humanities Center, the 
Hodges Fund, and the Office of Research at the University of Tennessee.