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Over the years, many students who have joined me in this Medieval Travel course, have made great progress in their academic and professional careers. Here are a few examples: Images from the 2023 trip (here, Arles (France) and Bellinzona (Switzerland): Sheighlin Wilband (Nov. 2024; joined the program in 2009): The best part of the course…Continue Reading Success stories by students in the Medieval Travel course

Chiara Benati, Università di Genova: Erwirdiger freundt Bernnharde…: Friendship and Community Among Late Medieval Surgeons as Presented in the Vernacular Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works As McVaugh (2006: 9) observes, “between 1240 and 1320, a new genre of medical writing appeared in Western Europe: Latin general surgery.” In the works produced during those…Continue Reading Abstract for the 2025 Symposium

Thematic Minor: Medieval Studies What does it mean? Now you can work toward a Thematic Minor in Medieval Studies for the first time in the history of the University of Arizona! This means that you will establish a thematic focus on the Middle Ages, studying it from many different perspectives from different departments across campus, including…Continue Reading Thematic Minor in Medieval Studies

Program. Conference 2024 22nd International Symposium 2024: Miracles, Wonders, Science, and Faith in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Date: May 3-4, 2024. Time: 9:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. each day Location: University of Arizona, Richard A. Harvill Building 305, northeast corner of 2nd St. and Olive Rd., 1103 E. Second St. When you get…Continue Reading Miracles: Program, 2024

This is the program for the 2024 International symposium on Miracles, Wonders, Science, and Faith. Zoom link for both days: Link Program. Conference 2024 22nd International Symposium 2024: Miracles, Wonders, Science, and Faith in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Date: May 3-4, 2024. Time: 9:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. each day Location: University of…Continue Reading Program. Miracles. 2024

Mediaevistik Bd. 1   Vorwort                      7 Aufsätze   Régis BOYER, Naissances Astrales. Mythes cosmogoniques de la Scandinavie ancienne                        9 Michael GOODICH,  Miracles and Disbelief in the Late Middle Ages                       23 Bernhard D. HAAGE, Vom Nutzen interdisziplinärer Forschung bei der Interpretation mittelalterlicher Literatur. Am Beispiel von Wolframs von Eschenbach `Parzival`            39 Donald J. KAGAY, Structures…Continue Reading Gesamtinhalt, Mediaevistik – Cumulative Content

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona: The Power of the Narrative in Support of the Miraculous. Caesarius of Heisterbach and his Popular Appeal This paper will examine Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum as a medium for the exploration of miracles and of the workings of the devil. This collection proved to be extremely popular, and there are…Continue Reading 2024 Abstracts

Najlaa Aldeeb, Swansea University, Wales, UK, and Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: The Miracle of Solomon’s Throne: A Comparative Study of Al-Thaʿlabi’s Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ and the City of Brass Solomon’s wandering throne lived beyond the time of the king himself, as the story circulated in different geographical areas for several centuries. Solomon could command the wind and…Continue Reading Abstracts