Poculi Ludique Societas, Toronto's Medieval and Renaissance Players is proud to present the world premiere of a new translation of the 17th Century Spanish play. This Spanish Classic - the source of Mozart's Don Giovanni - follows the sexual adventures of Don Juan around the Mediterranean as he seduces the maidens of Naples and Seville. His relatives and servant try to check his recklessness; but it takes a statue from the tomb of the father of one of his victims, to deliver his fatal comeuppance.

SHOW DATES:

Thursday Sept 23, Friday Sept. 24, Saturday Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. Matinees: Saturday Sept. 24 - Sunday Sept 26th at 2p.m. Thursday Sept 30, Friday, Oct 1 at 8 p.m. (NO performance on Oct 2) Matinee: Sunday Oct 3 at 2 p.m. Thursday Oct 7, Friday Oct 8, Saturday Oct 9 at 8 p.m. Matinees: Saturday Oct 9, Sunday Oct 10 at 2p.m.

Prices: $20 Regular, $15 Seniors, $10 Students

Box Office: 416-978-5096.

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Reception to follow

There will be a reception after the talk upstairs in the Osborne Room. Professor Orme's visit to Toronto has been arranged by the Friends of the Osborne Collection for Early Children's Literature. Please direct any inquiries about this event to Professor Patricia Bruckmann at bruckman@trinity.toronto.edu

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Prof. Lancashire's electronic database gathers together the dictionaries, grammars, and linguistic vade mecums [sic] of scores of "harmless drudges," thus making it possible, for the first time, to get a comprehensive view of not only how Early Modern English men and women spoke, but how they "defined" how they spoke.
As always, all and sundry are both invited and encouraged to attend this valuable session.

A reception will follow the lecture in the Shook Common Room of PIMS.

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the Department of History.

This paper takes up three different "emotional communities"-- roups that valued, devalued and expressed certain emotions in common, thus sharing a particular emotional style--in Merovingian Francia. The Merovingian period (c.500-751) has been seen as violent, crass, and unfeeling. That view is based on a certain way of reading the texts of Merovingian writers. Bringing a new set of questions to those same sources-- questions based on understanding emotions as cognitivist psychologists understand them-- yields a new view. One group did revel in violence, but a different one privileged love and family feeling, and a third avoided most emotional expression entirely, disparaging women because they were seen as particularly passionate. Indeed, I see this latter group as the source of one tradition of anti-female emotions discourse.

A talk for the University of Toronto Humanities Centre.

Registration: mark.laszlo.herbert@utoronto.ca
CRRSers might be interested in particular in Friday, October 22, 2004, Panel One: Orientalism Between Religion and Politics, 9:00-11:30 a.m. Room 208N, Nina Berman, Ohio State University "Martin Luther on the Turks."

A Conference by the Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University.

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A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the Department of History.

An illustrated talk by Professor Alexandra Johnston. Professor Johnston was in Elche this August for the performance of this play that traces its origins back to the late fifteenth century. Sung in Catalan, the play features three spectacular hoisting devices that descend and ascend approximately sixty metres from the stage to the 'heaven' in the cupola of the basilica. Come and hear about this spectacular survival of the medieval theatre. A reception in the Senior Common Room of Burwash Hall will follow the lecture. Co-sponsored by Records of Early English Drama and the Poculi Ludique Societas.

Three papers that were presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies conference a few weeks ago will be presented in the department. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Lecture sponsored by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

November 26th, 2004 7:30 p.m. Dante in Translation with a New Version of the Inferno in Terza Rima by Celestino De Iuliis by Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University

8:30 p.m. Performances from Dante and Shakespeare with Jennifer Dale as Cleopatra, Phelia, Portia and Geza Kovacs as Hamlet, Lear, Richard II

Saturday, November 27th, 2004, 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Conference. Speakers include: John Astington (University of Toronto), David Galbraith (University of Toronto), Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto), Jill Levenson (University of Toronto), William Robins, University of Toronto, Antonio Sorella (Università Gabriele D'Annunzio, Pescara)

Reception to follow. Everyone welcome. For information, please call 416-926-2345

Reception to follow. Everyone welcome. For information, please call 416-926-2345

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the Department of History.

Tickets $15 ($10 for students, seniors, and the unwaged)
This programme highlights Christmas music from the international world of late-Gothic courts and their household chapels, a brilliant repertoire created by professional musicians whose services were actively sought by secular and ecclesiastical rulers all over Europe. The concert includes vocal polyphony, "soft instruments" (fiddles, lute, gittern, harp, recorders), and a "loud band" of shawms and sackbuts. Performers are Katherine Hill, Janice Kerkkamp, Bryan Martin, Randall Rosenfeld, and Andrea Budgey, with special guest Cam Walter.
For more information, reservations, or press tickets, please contact SINE NOMINE:
Telephone 416-638-9445 Fax 416-926-7292 E-mail sine.nomine@3web.net Website www.pims.ca/sinenomine

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the Department of History.

2005 F. E. L. Priestley Memorial Lectures

7 February “'Paler than grass': Love as a disease in classical antiquity”
8 February “'De amore herico': The diseases of love in medieval medical thought”
9 February “'The loverers maladye of hereos': eros in literature from the Roman de la rose to Petrarch”

2005 Brieger Lecture

Reception to follow

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the Department of History

A talk sponsored by the Centre of Medieval Studies

Abstract: The crisis in Roman ideology which brought the migrations in tow led to far-reaching changes in the culture of settlement from the late third century on. During the sixth century, after the invasions, the relationship between city and countryside was reversed. This lecture considers the question how inhabitants confronted the process of shrinking cities, and the consequences for the shape of the city. It will be shown, by way of the illustration of the Roman amphitheater, how monumental architectural structures were transformed while the typologies of buildings were maintained. Finally, the significance of Roman buildings as forerunners of the medieval city will be discussed.

There are many connections between medieval music and the "folk" music of European (and European-based) cultures, some clear and some enigmatic. SINE NOMINE explores the relationship between the music of the Middle Ages and the traditional music of later centuries in this lively programme for a winter's night.

Tickets are $15 ($10 for students, seniors, and the unwaged). Telephone 416-638-9445 Fax 416-926-7292 E-mail or visit the website for further inforamtion.

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the History Department

A workshop sponsored by the Groupe de Recherche sur les Entrées Solennelles with the support of the Department of French, University of Toronto.
Schedule:
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Visiting Fellow CRRS
Negotiations Between City and Prince: Entries in the Low Countries, c. 1450-1650
Lyse Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal
Guerre et Paix. Les entrées de Charles Quint en 1539-1540
Scott Schofield, University of Toronto
The Politics of James Ist Royal Entry in London in 1604
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, York University
The Sources of Anne Boleyn's 1533 Royal Entry in London
Dylan Reid, University of Toronto
The Renaissance in Rouen: The Context of the Royal Entries of 1532 and 1550
Benoît Bolduc, University of Toronto
The Printed Records of Henri II's Entries in France
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Gala Performance: 18 March, 8p.m.
19 March, 8p.m.
19, 20 March 2p.m.
24, 25, 26 March, 8p.m.
26,27 March, 2p.m.

Box office 416-978-5096
$10 Students, $15 Seniors, $20 Regular

A talk for the Graduate History of Art Students' Association, University of Toronto.
A reception will follow in the Fine Art Department Common Room (Sidney Smith Hall, 6th floor).

A talk for the Premodern Discussion Group of the History Department

Information: Visit the RSA website.

The 2005 Leonard E. Boyle, OP Lecture.
Reception to follow lecture in the PIMS Common Room.

Information: Visit the Comparative Literature website.

The great church of Saint James at Compostela was one of the most popular pilgrimage goals of the Middle Ages (and remains a great attraction for modern pilgrims). SINE NOMINE celebrates this enduring tradition with music in honour of Saint James, pieces about pilgrimage, and readings recounting the travels of the faithful.

Tickets are $15 ($10 for students, seniors, and the unwaged). Telephone 416-638-9445 Fax 416-926-7292 E-mail or visit the website for further inforamtion.

Visit the conference webpage for further details.

The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum. In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts. Students in the Latin course will have the option of reading classical or medieval texts in the final 2 weeks. For further information and an application form see our website: or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277

Information: Visit the Leeds IMC website.

Supported by a major grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2005.
View the pdf announcement.

Applications available in January for the March 15 deadline.

View the pfd of the announcement.

Applications available in January for the March 15 deadline.

View the pfd of the announcement.

Dr David Starkey will give the Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies (keynote lecture).

Invited speakers will include Tom Healy (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck University of London), Kate McLuskie (Director, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon- Avon), and Marion Wynne-Davies (Reader in English, Dundee University).

Papers are invited from academic staff, independent researchers and postgraduate students on the following or related topics:

classical and Renaissance biography; modern biography; hidden/invented/exemplary lives; constructions of the self; astrology; popular and formal portrayal in ballads, chapbooks, portraiture, or funerary sculpture; literary, historical or artistic figures in film, theatre and fiction; or any combination of these topics. Interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives will be particularly welcome.

Proposals (250-300 words) for short papers (maximum 2,500 words) should be submitted by 30 June 2005 to Susanne Greenhalgh (s.greenhalgh@roehampton.ac.uk). Accepted papers - to be submitted by 15 September - will be circulated by Seminar Chairs before the conference, and participants will be invited to speak briefly to their papers. Conference papers will be published as online conference proceedings with an ISBN under the title 'Renaissance Lives'.

For further details including maps and a booking form please go to www.roehampton.ac.uk/renaissance/ and follow the link to 'conference'. If you have any queries or would be interested in chairing a session please write to Professor Robin Headlam Wells(r.headlam_wells@roehampton.ac.uk), or Susanne Greenhalgh (s.greenhalgh@roehampton.ac.uk)