December 17, 2021
The Department of Medieval Studies at CEU is pleased to announce the complete program of its Winter Term Public Lecture Series.
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Time: Wednesdays, 17:40 CET
Place: CEU Vienna Campus and on Zoom
January 19:
- Eloïse Adde, Central European University | Emotions and Nation: Making Community, Communion and National Subjects in the Narrative Sources of Brabant and Bohemia (1300–1400)
February 2:
- Volker Menze, Central European University | Blessings, Bribes & Bishops: Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Making of Orthodoxy
February 16:
- Katja Weidner, University of Vienna | How the Whale Got Its Fragrance: A Look at Medieval Bestiaries and Beyond
March 2:
- Andreas Zajic and Jonathan Dumont, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Bonds of Trust and Informal Power within the State Bureaucracy: The Habsburg Monarchy under Maximilian I
March 16:
- Giulia Rossetto, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Written on the Margins: Multilingual Annotations in the Byzantine Prayerbooks of Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai)
March 30:
- Bruno De Nicola, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Islamic Manuscripts from the Mongol Empire: Challenges and Possibilities