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Renaud pursues plans to become museum curator
Sarah Renaud ’18 is already headed down the path to her dream job as a museum curator.
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Madrigal Dinner Theatre
The Medieval and Renaissance Club (MeRC) is hosting its annual Madrigal Dinner Theatre on the 15th of February at 6:15 p.m. in Pfeiffer Hall. This event is a fundraiser and consists of a traditional feast similar to what might have happened during the Middle Ages. We also provide entertainment for the meal, this year songs from that time and modern lyrical tellings of old tales.
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Literature course explores Dante’s world in Italy
Medieval Literature students spent Block 2 in Italy studying Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Their days were spent roaming the cathedrals that inspired Dante himself and viewing art that was inspired by Dante’s work.
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HAIG Lecture
Michelle Herder, assistant professor of history, will give a lecture on April 14th titled “Serving in the Cloister: Work and Discipline in Late Medieval Monasteries.”
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Gione explores early modern texts at Newberry Library
Hitting the library is a habit most first-year students adopt. But Ellie Gione took this notion much deeper than most, digging into primary sources more than 450 years old at one of the world’s premier research libraries.
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Newberry Library grants English students access to rare texts
Scholarly research in English is typically a solo affair. But during a unique course at the Newberry Library in Chicago, professor Katy Stavreva serves as guide, mentor, and colleague as students dig into the archives at one of the North America’s premier research libraries.
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Scholar on theology and medieval history to lecture at Cornell
MOUNT VERNON — A University of Chicago scholar with expertise in theology and medieval history will lecture at Cornell College on “The Mysticism of the Ground” as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Hedges Conference Room of The Commons. Admission is free. Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone […]
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Tapestry brings medieval, contemporary vocal music to Cornell
MOUNT VERNON — Tapestry, a Boston-based ensemble specializing in medieval and contemporary vocal music, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, April 3, in King Chapel at Cornell College. Admission is $8 at the door. The concert closes the 1999-2000 season of Cornell’s Music Mondays. The group will perform a concert version of its 1998 Telarc […]
Renaud pursues plans to become museum curator 
Literature course explores Dante’s world in Italy