Lecture: “Towards a Secret History of Epic: The Architrenius and De vetula as Major Precedents for Dante’s Commedia”
Justin Haynes (University of California, Davis)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Calendar of Events: 2018
This calendar lists all Institute events, including meetings of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, and lectures of interest to fellows, staff, and visitors at the Institute. It includes, where possible, events sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), and St Michael’s College (USMC). All dates and times are accurate at time of posting. For further information on Institute events, please contact Semira Abdella, Institute secretary (phone 416 926 7142).
The University of Toronto maintains a comprehensive listing of local events. Visitors to the Institute may also wish to consult the calendars posted on the Faculty of Music, the Department of Fine Art, and Hart House websites. To locate venues and individual buildings use the map of the St George Campus.
Lecture: “What Was the Cost of Books in Chaucer's Time?”
Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto)
Upper Library, Massey College, 4 Devonshire Place, U of T
Lecture: “Virgil and Prudentius in Aldhelm’s Carmen de Virginitate”
Cillian O'Hogan (University of British Columbia)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Digital Humanities Workshops, Winter 2018
Centre for Medieval Studies
Map & Data Library, 5th floor, Robarts Library
Lecture: “Hugh Primas' Troy: Imitation and Innovation”
Susanna Fischer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Singing Ovid in a New Key: Ovidian Poetics in the Fourteenth-Century Motet”
Andrew Hicks (Cornell University)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Comedy, Irony, and Philosophy: Menippean Satire in Late Antiquity”
Michael Herren (York University)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Medieval Latin Philology Seminar: John of Kent's Summa de penitencia
Alexander Andrée and Samuel Klumpenhouwer
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Medieval Women Writers II: Peregrina and Its Legacy
A selection of papers by 4th-year USMC students
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture 1: “A Vivid Image”: On Poetry and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages
Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “The Viaticum of Constantine the African: Manuscript Puzzles and Editorial Prospects”
Brian Long (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture 2: “A Vivid Image”: On Poetry and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages
Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Winners, Wasters, and the Shadow of Envy: Theories of Justice and the Scene of Medieval Literature”
Jessica Rosenfeld (Washington University in St Louis)
Room 200, Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place
Seminar: “Made for a Templar, Fit for an Abbess: The Psalter, Cambridge, St John's College, MS C.18 (68)”
Katie Bugyis (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture 3: “A Vivid Image”: On Poetry and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages
Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “'I will explain in person': the instabilitas of Female Religious Life in the Letters of Jordan of Saxony (d. 1237), Diana d'Andalò (d. 1236), and the Sisters of Sant'Agnese”
Steve Watts (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture 4: “A Vivid Image”: On Poetry and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages
Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “How did Early Medieval Historians Use Their Sources?”
Richard Shaw (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College)
The Basilian Common Room, University of St Michael’s College
Workshop: “Lists in Premodern Literature: Exploring the Practices of Enumeration”
Centre for Medieval Studies
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park