Marcus Rediker will speak about the subject of his recent book: the transatlantic life and times of Benjamin Lay, an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who was one of the first to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to […]
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Amira K Bennison: Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib
The Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, CUFA, cordially invites you to the lecture Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib by Professor Amira K. Bennison (University of Cambridge). Recommended reading: ‘Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The ‘Social Contract’ in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050-1250’, Comparative Islamic […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Jewish Jesus
Sorcerer, Rebel, or Pious Fool? Jewish Narratives about Jesus and Their Medieval Afterlives Young Czech Hebraist Milan Žonca (Charles University, Prague) will speak about spectacular, scurrile and blasphemous Jewish medieval narratives about the life of Jesus Christ poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the […]
Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): The survival of Shakespeareʼs language in English dialects (on the basis of EDD Online)
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Dr. Lee Schwartz: Geographic Perspectives on Global Hot Spots – Views from the U.S. Geographer
Lee Schwartz is the State Department’s 8th Geographer, a position that bears the statutory responsibility for providing guidance to all federal agencies on questions of international boundaries and sovereignty claims. His recent focus has been on projects related to geographic information documentation and coordination related to participatory mapping, complex emergencies, and sustainability. Lee was the State […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: Jesus
The Late Medieval Lives of Christ Hungarian scholar David Falvay (ELTE Budapest) will speak about the late medieval lives of Christ and evaluate them as reflections of the medieval Christian piety. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts […]
Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): Selected Features of Spokenness in Late Modern English: A survey based on Joseph Wright’s EDD (online)
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): How to use EDD Online: a practical introduction
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Prof. Barend J. ter Haar (University of Oxford): Sounds in Chinese Religious Culture
Sound plays a central role in Chinese religious culture, also and maybe even more so from a historical perspective. Since sound, like smell, taste, and a variety of tactile experiences are extremely hard to recover historically, it is not surprising that little attention has been paid to this dimension of religious life. Nonetheless, the situation sounds worse than […]
