![]() ![]() “There’s a lot more variety in the Middle Ages than later.” And witch burning is a Renaissance phenomenon, not a medieval one.” He attributes the violence, at bottom, to the consolidating power of the state in Europe after the medieval period. “But go forward 200 years, to Henry VIII, and people were burned and tortured for what they believed. “In Chaucer’s England, nobody was ever burned or tortured for their beliefs,” he says. Keynote Address: “Sacrifice Your Daughter: Horrible History in Chaucer and the Book of Judges”ĥ p.m., Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library Louis University)Ĥ–4:45 p.m., Humanities Center Lounge, Rush Rhees Library Perry (Chaucer Society Postdoc, Department of English, St. “Pens, Plows, and Philosophers: Imagining the History of Communication in Early Modern England” ![]() Cook (Assistant Professor of English, Colby College) “Racial Cartographies in The Book of John Mandeville” Sierra Lomuto (Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoc, Assistant Professor of English, Macalester College).Anna Siebach-Larsen, (Director, Robbins Library), Moderator.(presentations, followed by a response from David Wallace and conversation) Reinhild Steingröver (chair of Humanities, Eastman School of Music), InterlocutorĪ reception and an exhibition of Margaret Schlauch materials from the archives of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester will follow the lecture.įerrari Humanities Symposia Early Career Panel: “New Ways of Writing the Past”ġ0 a.m.–12 p.m., Conference Room D, Humanities Center, Rush Rhees Library “Fascism, Medievalism, and the Rochester Legacy of Margaret Schlauch” These events are free and open to the public. David Wallace will take part in a range of events as the keynote speaker for the Ferrari Humanities Symposia. ![]()
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