Past Seminars
Friday, January 11, 2013 to Friday, March 15, 2013
Graduate Seminar
This seminar will focus on rereading Foucault’s History of Sexuality (both the three published volumes as well as additional published materials intended for a fourth volume) in relation to hagiographic narratives from the Late Antique, Old English, and Middle English traditions and to medieval and early modern literary texts on love in French (in translation).
Friday, September 28, 2012 to Friday, December 7, 2012
Graduate Seminar
This seminar will emphasize the development of Latin handwriting, primarily as book scripts, from its origins to the waning of the Carolingian minuscule, ca. A.D. 1100.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 to Thursday, December 6, 2012
Graduate Seminar
One of the most important turning points in the history of Christianity—arguably the most important—was the conversion of Constantine in 312, which led to the toleration of Christianity and an alliance between Church and Empire. The year 2012, the 1700th anniversary of that turning point, is an appropriate time to reexamine both the conversion itself and the mult
Friday, January 20, 2012 to Saturday, March 31, 2012
Graduate Seminar
W. Martin Bloomer and Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame
Optional class research trip to the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan, March 10 - 18
Thursday, January 5, 2012 to Thursday, March 8, 2012
Graduate Seminar
Friday, September 30, 2011 to Friday, December 9, 2011
Graduate Seminar
An Introduction to Latin Paleography and Manuscript Codicology
Friday, January 7, 2011 to Friday, March 11, 2011
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Masculinity and the Anglo-Saxons
Thursday, January 6, 2011 to Thursday, March 10, 2011
Graduate Seminar
Disability and Marginality in Medieval England and France
Thursday, January 7, 2010 to Thursday, March 11, 2010
Graduate Seminar
Princes and Their Cities in Burgundian and Habsburg Europe, 1400-1648
James Murray and James Palmitessa, Western Michigan University
Friday, September 25, 2009 to Friday, December 11, 2009
Graduate Seminar
Emotions in History, c. 600-c. 1700
Thursday, September 24, 2009 to Thursday, December 10, 2009
Graduate Seminar
Introduction to the Troubadours
William Paden, Northwestern University
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Junius Manuscript
Friday, October 3, 2008 to Friday, December 12, 2008
Graduate Seminar
Gender, Power, and Religion in Medieval Europe, 800-1100
Friday, January 11, 2008 to Friday, March 21, 2008
Graduate Seminar
Introduction to the Troubadours
William Paden, Northwestern University
Friday, January 11, 2008 to Friday, March 14, 2008
Graduate Seminar
Codicology and Latin Paleography
Friday, January 11, 2008 to Friday, March 14, 2008
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Beowulf
Friday, September 28, 2007 to Friday, December 7, 2007
Graduate Seminar
The Commentary Tradition in the Medieval West
Thursday, January 11, 2007 to Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: “Unworthy Bodies”: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 to Saturday, March 17, 2007
Praying by the Book: Devotional Manuscripts and Their Uses in the High and Later Middle Ages
Friday, January 13, 2006 to Friday, March 17, 2006
Graduate Seminar
Theorizing Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Mexico: Pictorial Nahua Documents
Friday, January 13, 2006 to Friday, March 17, 2006
Graduate Seminar
Theorizing Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Mexico: Pictorial Nahua Documents
Sunday, January 1, 2006 to Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Law and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Friday, September 30, 2005 to Friday, December 9, 2005
Graduate Seminar
Medieval Representations of the Human Person: Saints and Mystics
Thursday, September 1, 2005 to Thursday, December 1, 2005
Graduate Seminar
Emblems: Their Development and Context in European Material Culture
Daniel Russell, University of Pittsburgh, and Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, January 7, 2005 to Friday, March 11, 2005
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Discovery and Invention of Old English Literature
Friday, January 7, 2005 to Friday, March 11, 2005
Graduate Seminar
Revisions of an Old Institution: Controversial Takes on Marriage in Late Medieval England
Friday, September 24, 2004 to Friday, December 3, 2004
Graduate Seminar
Indulgences and Medieval Pilgrimage, ca. 700 - ca. 1400
Friday, January 9, 2004 to Friday, March 19, 2004
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England
Paul Szarmach, Western Michigan University, now emeritus
Wednesday, January 7, 2004 to Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Graduate Seminar
Relations of Empire: Spanish and Portuguese Narratives of Imperial Expansion
Thursday, September 25, 2003 to Thursday, December 4, 2003
Graduate Seminar
Music in Elizabethan Culture
Friday, January 10, 2003 to Friday, March 14, 2003
Graduate Seminar
Sensus Communis: Vico on Rhetoric, Religion, and Law
John Schaeffer, Northern Illinois University
Friday, January 3, 2003 to Friday, March 14, 2003
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Sin and Forgiveness in Anglo-Saxon England
Friday, January 3, 2003 to Friday, March 14, 2003
Graduate Seminar
Medieval Magic and Renaissance Magicians
Friday, April 5, 2002 to Friday, June 7, 2002
Graduate Seminar
Reading Medieval French in Newbery Manuscripts
Tuesday, April 2, 2002 to Thursday, April 25, 2002
Graduate Seminar
Love and Friendship in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Montaigne
Friday, January 4, 2002 to Friday, March 8, 2002
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Exeter Book: A Tenth-Century Old English Poetic Miscellany and its Contents
Thomas N. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, September 28, 2001 to Friday, December 7, 2001
Graduate Seminar
Renaissances
Tuesday, September 25, 2001 to Tuesday, December 4, 2001
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval and Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Saturday, September 1, 2001
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval and Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Sandra L. Hindman, Northwestern University (Emerita)
Friday, January 12, 2001 to Friday, March 16, 2001
Graduate Seminar
Medieval Latin Paleography and Codicology
Timothy Graham, Western Michigan University
Friday, January 5, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Beowulf
Friday, September 29, 2000 to Thursday, December 7, 2000
Graduate Seminar
Power and Politics: Northern Renaissance Court Festivals
Thursday, September 21, 2000 to Thursday, November 30, 2000
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Printing the Middle English Text
Tim Machan, Marquette University
Participants: Susan Stafinbil, Marquette University; Daniel Knauss, Marquette University
Tuesday, March 28, 2000 to Tuesday, June 6, 2000
Graduate Seminar
Introduction to the Troubadours
William Paden, Northwestern University (now emeritus)
Thursday, January 20, 2000 to Thursday, March 23, 2000
Graduate Seminar
Transformations of Interpretation Theory: Boethius to Valla
Alan Perreiah, University of Kentucky
Participants: Don Marshall, University of Illinois at Chicago; James South, Marquette University; Shawn Welnak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Friday, January 7, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript
Tuesday, September 21, 1999 to Tuesday, November 16, 1999
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Wednesday, March 31, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Graduate Seminar
Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
Tuesday, January 19, 1999 to Tuesday, March 23, 1999
Graduate Seminar
Instruments of Early Medieval King and Queenship: From Amicitia to “Zealous Anger”
Friday, January 8, 1999 to Friday, March 19, 1999
Graduate Seminar
Newberry Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Alfred 1100
Thursday, October 1, 1998 to Thursday, November 26, 1998
Graduate Seminar
Varieties of Faith: Three Hundred Years of Heresy in Medieval Western Europe
Thursday, February 5, 1998 to Thursday, April 16, 1998
Graduate Seminar
Constructing Criminal Identities in Renaissance England
Wednesday, February 4, 1998 to Wednesday, April 22, 1998
Graduate Seminar
Gendering the Canon: Women Writers of the Spanish Golden Age
Anne Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, January 9, 1998 to Friday, March 6, 1998
Graduate Seminar
Newberry Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Beowulf
Thursday, October 2, 1997 to Thursday, December 4, 1997
Graduate Seminar
Writing the Body in the Middle Ages
Anne Clark Bartlett, DePaul University
Participants: Craig Bery, Northwestern University; Maeve Callan, Northwestern University; Mary Connor, DePaul University; Belinda Gordon, DePaul University
Friday, September 26, 1997 to Friday, December 12, 1997
Graduate Seminar
Portals and Processions in the Middle Ages
Wednesday, February 5, 1997 to Wednesday, April 16, 1997
Graduate Seminar
Latin Paleography from the Age of Charlemagne to the Age of Humanism
Timothy Graham, Western Michigan University
Tuesday, February 4, 1997 to Tuesday, April 15, 1997
Graduate Seminar
Interpreting Rabelais
Friday, January 10, 1997 to Friday, March 21, 1997
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Vercelli Book
Thomas N. Hall
Tuesday, September 24, 1996 to Tuesday, November 26, 1996
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Friday, February 2, 1996 to Friday, April 5, 1996
Graduate Seminar
Latin Paleography from the Age of Charlemagne to the Age of Humanism
Timothy Graham, Western Michigan University
Wednesday, January 17, 1996 to Wednesday, March 27, 1996
Graduate Seminar
Constructions of ‘Self’ in Anglo-Saxon England
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, January 4, 1996 to Thursday, March 14, 1996
Graduate Seminar
The Visual Culture of Elizabethan England
Friday, October 6, 1995 to Friday, December 8, 1995
Graduate Seminar
From ‘Auctor’ to ‘Author’: Dante and the Invention of Vernacular Authorship
Albert Russell Ascoli, Northwestern University
currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 5, 1995 to Thursday, December 14, 1995
Graduate Seminar
Sanctity and Socity in the Medieval West
Thomas Head, Washington University
Thursday, March 30, 1995 to Thursday, June 1, 1995
Graduate Seminar
Print Culture in the Early Modern City
Tuesday, February 7, 1995 to Tuesday, April 11, 1995
Graduate Seminar
Christian Religious Minorities in Earl Modern Europe
Susan Rosa, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Friday, January 13, 1995 to Friday, March 24, 1995
Graduate Seminar
Beowuld and Germanic Legend
Wednesday, March 2, 1994 to Wednesday, May 4, 1994
Graduate Seminar
Friday, January 7, 1994 to Friday, March 11, 1994
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Old English Poetry
Thursday, September 23, 1993 to Thursday, December 2, 1993
Graduate Seminar
Roman Civil and Canon Law, 1050-1500
Tuesday, September 21, 1993 to Tuesday, November 23, 1993
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Thursday, August 26, 1993 to Thursday, November 4, 1993
Graduate Seminar
The Medieval Sermon: Form, History, Theology
Thomas N. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, April 8, 1993 to Thursday, June 10, 1993
Graduate Seminar
Saints and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam
Gregory C. Kolzowski, DePaul University and Karen Scott, DePaul University
Wednesday, March 31, 1993 to Wednesday, May 26, 1993
Graduate Seminar
Friday, January 8, 1993 to Friday, March 12, 1993
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Beowulf and the Making of England
Wednesday, January 6, 1993 to Wednesday, March 10, 1993
Graduate Seminar
Patronage and Patriarchy, Matronage and Matriarchy
Friday, March 27, 1992 to Friday, May 29, 1992
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: A Workshop
Wednesday, March 25, 1992 to Wednesday, May 27, 1992
Graduate Seminar
Gender and Power in the Renaissance
Wednesday, March 25, 1992 to Wednesday, May 27, 1992
Graduate Seminar
Gender and Power in the Renaissance
Friday, January 10, 1992 to Friday, March 13, 1992
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Exeter Book: A Tenth-Century Poetic Miscellany and It’s Cultural Background
Thomas N. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wednesday, January 8, 1992 to Wednesday, March 11, 1992
Graduate Seminar
Reformation and Counter-Reformation: A New Approach
Friday, March 22, 1991 to Friday, May 24, 1991
Graduate Seminar
Ramon Llull and Lullism: Lay Learning and Popular Spirituality, 1300-1500
Mark D. Johnston, Illinois State University
Friday, January 11, 1991 to Friday, March 15, 1991
Graduate Seminar
The Vercelli Book, History and Contexts
Friday, January 4, 1991 to Friday, March 15, 1991
Graduate Seminar
Latin Paleography: Western Manuscript Books from Carolingian Times to the Invention of the Printing Press
Friday, January 5, 1990 to Friday, March 9, 1990
Graduate Seminar
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Karma D. Lochrie, Loyola University Chicago (now at Indiana University)
Thursday, January 4, 1990 to Thursday, March 8, 1990
Graduate Seminar
Le Roman de la Rose: Literary and Codicological Perspectives
Sylvia Huot, Northern Illinois University (now at the University of Cambridge)
Monday, October 2, 1989 to Monday, December 4, 1989
Graduate Seminar
Introduction to Old Occitan
Friday, September 8, 1989 to Friday, November 17, 1989
Graduate Seminar
The History of the Book in the Middle Ages
Friday, September 8, 1989 to Friday, November 10, 1989
Graduate Seminar
Hamlet and Its Criticism
Thursday, March 30, 1989 to Thursday, June 1, 1989
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Northern Europe: A Workshop
Wednesday, March 29, 1989 to Wednesday, May 31, 1989
Graduate Seminar
Encyclopedism as Style and Method
Barbara Stafford, University of Chicago; Paolo Cherchi, University of Chicago (Emeritus)
Friday, January 6, 1989 to Friday, March 10, 1989
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Beowulf
Thursday, January 5, 1989 to Thursday, March 9, 1989
Graduate Seminar
Politics and Public Life in Restoration England
Friday, April 1, 1988 to Friday, June 10, 1988
Graduate Seminar
The Individual, the State, and God: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Edwin Curley, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, January 8, 1988 to Friday, March 11, 1988
Graduate Seminar
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Anglo-Saxon Liberature and History in Post-Renaissance England
Wednesday, October 7, 1987 to Wednesday, December 9, 1987
Graduate Seminar
The Formation of the First Universities: Paris and Bologna 1000 - 1230
Charles Radding, Loyola University Chicago
Friday, October 2, 1987 to Friday, December 4, 1987
Graduate Seminar
Ben Jonson’s Poetry: The Humanist Poet and the Praise of True Nobility
Wednesday, April 1, 1987 to Wednesday, June 10, 1987
Graduate Seminar
Religious Experience and Thought in the Spanish Golden Age, 1500-1700
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, January 9, 1987 to Friday, March 6, 1987
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Northern Europe: A Workshop
Friday, January 9, 1987 to Friday, March 6, 1987
Graduate Seminar
The Seven Liberal Arts in the Renaissance
Tuesday, October 7, 1986 to Tuesday, December 9, 1986
Graduate Seminar
Rabelais and Renaissance Laughter
Barbara Bowen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, October 3, 1986 to Friday, December 12, 1986
Graduate Seminar
Renaissance Epic
Friday, March 28, 1986 to Friday, May 23, 1986
Graduate Seminar
Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Northern Europe: A Workshop
Friday, January 3, 1986 to Friday, March 7, 1986
Graduate Seminar
Marriage, the Family and the Law, ca. 1250 - ca. 1450
James Brundage, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus)
Wednesday, October 9, 1985 to Wednesday, December 11, 1985
Graduate Seminar
Dante and His World
Antonio C. Mastrobuono,University of Illinois at Chicago
Saturday, October 5, 1985 to Saturday, December 14, 1985
Graduate Seminar
Shakespeare as a Historical Dramatist
Friday, October 4, 1985 to Friday, December 13, 1985
Graduate Seminar
Visions of Everyday Life: Naturalism and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
Barry Wind, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wednesday, April 3, 1985 to Wednesday, May 22, 1985
Graduate Seminar
The Cartography of the Renaissance: Changing Perceptions of Space in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday, January 9, 1985 to Wednesday, March 20, 1985
Graduate Seminar
Renaissance Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
Wednesday, October 3, 1984 to Wednesday, December 5, 1984
Graduate Seminar
Renaissance Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
Tuesday, October 2, 1984 to Tuesday, December 11, 1984
Graduate Seminar
Cervantes and the Development of the Novel
Thursday, September 27, 1984 to Thursday, December 13, 1984
Graduate Seminar
Analytical Bibliography and Textual Criticism of Renaissance Plays
Robert Turner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thursday, March 15, 1984 to Thursday, April 19, 1984
Graduate Seminar
Seventeenth-Century Art and Diplomacy
Tuesday, February 14, 1984 to Tuesday, March 13, 1984
Graduate Seminar
The Making of a Slave Society: Jamaica during the 17th Century
Wednesday, January 4, 1984 to Wednesday, February 22, 1984
Graduate Seminar
Renaissance Intellectual History: The Problem of the New Science
Tuesday, January 3, 1984 to Tuesday, January 31, 1984
Graduate Seminar
The Making of a Slave Society: Jamaica during the 17th Century
Wednesday, September 28, 1983 to Wednesday, November 16, 1983
Graduate Seminar
Renaissance Intellectual History: The Problem of the New Science
Tuesday, April 6, 1982 to Tuesday, June 8, 1982
Graduate Seminar
Literature and Painting in the English Renaissance
S. Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Sunday, September 6, 1981
Graduate Seminar
Piers Plowman and Late Medieval-Early Renaissance Popular Culture
Mary J. Carruthers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Saturday, September 5, 1981
Graduate Seminar
Analytical Bibliography and Textual Criticism of Renaissance Plays
Robert Turner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Friday, September 4, 1981 to Sunday, December 13, 1981
Graduate Seminar
Literature, Language, and Science in Crisis in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England
Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Northwestern University
Monday, April 6, 1981
Graduate Seminar
Popular Traditions and the Literature of the English Renaissance
Leah Marcus, University of Illinois at Chicago (currently teaching at Vanderbilt University)
Friday, January 18, 1980 to Friday, May 2, 1980
Graduate Seminar
The Origins of English Humanism
Catherine A. L. Jarrott, Loyola University Chicago