If you find the idea of mysterious medieval manuscripts intriguing, the Department of History and the College of Arts and Sciences Medieval Studies Lecture Series has a treat for you—two lectures in the next week by two world authorities on two fascinating manuscripts! These lectures are free and open to all.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 6:00 PM, Special Collections, Bailey Howe Library
Dr. Ray Clemens (Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at Yale University’s Beinecke Library) will give a public lecture entitled, “The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript: Theories on Its Origin and Use”. This is a manuscript held at Yale written in a code so fiendishly difficult that it has never been deciphered! For more information, please contact Prof. Charles Briggs at charles.briggs@uvm.edu
Monday, February 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM – 338 Waterman Building, Memorial Lounge
Dr. Jacques Dalarun (IRHT/CNRS, Paris) will give a public lecture on “The ‘Rediscovered Francis of Assisi’ in the Rediscovered Life by Thomas of Celano.” The lecture focuses on Dr. Dalarun’s discovery of a previously unknown life of St. Francis in a manuscript that had been lost for over 700 years, and will be preceded by a brief introduction from UVM Prof. of History Sean Field. For more information, please contact Prof. Field at sean.field@uvm.edu
