Events

Spring 2009

Five College Medieval Studies Events Schedule...

Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire: An Interim Report
Medieval Studies Guest Lecture
Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University
Morrison Room, Willits Hallowell Center
A reception follows the lecture

Professor McCormick’s research and teaching focuses on the archaeology and history of the fall of the Roman Empire and the origins of medieval civilization, particularly the discovery of the past through the uncovery of new data from new natural scientific approaches to biomolecular evidence, climate change, etc. His publications include:

  • The Long Morning of Medieval Europe (with Jennifer R. Davis, 2008)
  • Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900 (2001)
  • Five Hundred Unknown Glosses from the Palatine Virgil (1993);
  • Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West (1986);
  • Index scriptorum operumque latino-belgicorum medii aevi: Nouveau répertoire des oeuvres médiolatines belges: XIIe siècle (1979)\
  • Les annales du haut moyen âge occidental (1975)

Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Ruth Dean Lecture, Mount Holyoke College
Professor Matilda Bruckner
Department of Romance Literature, Boston College
Mount Holyoke College, Art Building, Room 220

Prof. Bruckner will be speaking on animals in Marie de France's Fables.

Fall 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Glossing the Imaginary
Anna Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, UMass
Location: Herter Hall 6th Floor Conference Room, UMass

Anna Taylor, who joined the University of Massachusetts faculty in 2007, received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas Austin, where she wrote her dissertation on “Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: Epic Saints’ Lives in Western Francia, 800-1000.” While at the University of Texas she was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship and UT Austin’s prestigious Harrington Graduate Fellowship. She taught at UT Austin and at Notre Dame University before coming to UMass.

Thursday, November 6 at 4:30 pm
Hunting and the Birth of Europe, A. D. 300-1000
Presenter: Eric Goldberg, Associate Professor Department of History, Williams College (and currently a visiting faculty member at MIT)
Location: Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA

Erick Goldberg holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His book, Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817–876 (Cornell University Press, 2006) “explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne’s descendants that shaped the formation of Europe." In addition to this volume, he has published a variety of articles on Carolingian history in such distinguished journals as Essays in History, Viator, and Speculum. The Speculum article, titled “Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: the Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered,” was the winner of the Medieval Academy of America’s Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize.

Fall 2007

September 20, 2007
Piety and Blood: Women Readers around Henry III's Court
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Professor of English at the University of York
Willits-Hallowell Center, MHC

Spring 2007

The Office of the Dean of Faculty at Mount Holyoke hosted a spring colloquium in honor of Professor Margaret Switten titled, "Music and Texts: The Middle Ages and Beyond" April 20 and 21, 2007.

Schedule

Friday, April 20, 2007 at 2:45 - 4:30 pm 
Morrison Room, Willits-Hallowell Center
Session Chair: Eglal Doss-Quinby, Dept. of French, Smith College

  • Charles M. Atkinson
    Ars grammatica and the Ars musica in Carolingian Schools: Glosses on Martianus Capella and Boethius
  • Elizabeth W. Poe
    Teaching Troubadours
  • Michel Zink
    La chanson volée. Arnaut Daniel, Anc ieu non l’aic, mas elha m’a (BdT 29, 2) et sa razo (in French)

Friday, April 20, 2007 at 8:00 pm 
Concert
McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College

Saturday, April 2, 2007 9:15 am - 12:00 pm 
Morrison Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, Mount Holyoke College
Session Chair: Louise Litterick, Dept. of Music

  • Susan Boynton
    Situating the Cantigas de Santa Maria in the Eighteenth Century: The Palomares Copy of the Toledo Codex and its Many Meanings
  • Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
    Ma fin est mon commencement. Réflexion sur la poésie de Guillaume de Machaut. (In French)
  • Christie McDonald
    Rousseau: The Falling Art of Music
  • Leo Treitler
    Performance in the Design of Medieval Song