Public Ad-Hoc Lectures

From time to time, ACMRS offers free public lectures by both local and visiting scholars. Below is a list of recent speakers.

2008 Spring Semester

Penny Richards (University of Cheltenham) and
Jessica Muns (Director of Gender and Women Studies – University of Denver)
“The Myth of the Guise”
March 20, 2008
The speakers will trace the way the powerful family of Guise mythologized themselves and were mythologized by others in literature.

2007 Fall Semester

Rachel Scott, ASU “Leper Hospitals in Medieval Ireland”
3:00 PM Thursday, September 13
University Center Building (UCB) Room 266
ASU West Campus

Brian McGuire, Roskilde University, Denmark
“The Meaning of Christianization: The Case of Denmark, 700 – 1300”
3:00 PM Monday, October 15
Lattie F. Coor Hall – Room 4403
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies

2003 Fall Semester

C. Stephen Jaeger, "Alcuin and the Music of Friendship"
3:30 PM Tuesday, November 18, 2003
MU 212 Cochise

2003 Spring Semester

Amy Holbrook, "Allegorical Representations of the Discipline of Music in Medieval Latin Literature"

William Chester Jordan, "'Convenable and Convenient for Suche Offices': Anti-Corruption Campaigns in Thirteenth-Century Principalities"

Stephen Murray, "The Spaces of Medieval Architecture and Virtual Reality"

Donka Minkova, "Alliteration Rules! From Old to Middle English"

Robert Stockwell, "Emendation and the Chaucerian Metrical Template"

2002 Fall Semester

Dale Kent, "Patronage and Patriarchy in Renaissance Florence"

Paul Sellin, "The Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana": Sir Walter Raleigh's "Lost" Gold Mine on the Orinoco

2002 Spring Semester

William Calin, "Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: The Quarrel over La Belle Dame sans mercy"

Teresa Sanchez Roura, "Anachronisms in the Townley Play of Noah"

Juan Sanz Ballesteros and Miguel Angel Coso Marin, "Escenografia contempora-nea para teatro espanol del Siglo de Oro"

Paul Monod, "One Royal Body or Two? The Problem of Sacred Monarchy in Early Modern Europe"

Luuk Houwen, "The Bestiary Genre: A Reassessment"

John W. Williams, "History as Myth, Myth as History: The Tomb of the Apostle at Santiago de Compostela"

Jan Papy, "The Transformations of Stoicism in the 16th Century: Erasmus and Lipsius Editing and Interpreting Seneca"

2001 Fall Semester

Eric Hollas, "The Saint John's Bible"

Anders Fröjmark, "From the Wedding in Copenhagen to the Blood Bath of Stockholm: The Scandinavian Kingdoms in the Age of the Kalmar Union (1397-1523)"