Global Scholars Highlight Annual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium

Saint Louis University will hold the Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies Monday, June 18 through Wednesday, June 20. The programs are free for SLU students, faculty and staff.

Every year in June hundreds of scholars from around the world come to SLU to attend the Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  This year’s event, which will take place across the north campus, will include two hundred presentations and round-tables on such topics as gift-giving in medieval Muslim diplomacy, medieval Jewish textual art and female lordship in the Middle Ages.

Carole Hillenbrand of the University of Saint Andrews and the University of Edinburgh, who recently won the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, will deliver a plenary lecture at the symposium on “The Muslim Sect of the Assassins in Syria.” 

In addition, Geoffrey Parker of Ohio State University, who recently received the A. H. Heineken Prize for his research on the role of climate change in world history, will deliver an address on the use of new digital techniques in understanding the early modern past. 

Other highlights include programs on the following:

•  Lordship, Landscape, and Lineage: Castles and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Medieval Cathedrals: Sites of Sanctity and Power
• Studies in Medieval Warfare
• Early Modern Reformation(s)
• Christianity in Late Medieval Italy
• Fourteenth-century Florentine Writers

For more information and a full schedule of times and locations of lectures and programs, visit smrs.slu.edu.

Learn more about the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies