California Medieval History Seminar, Winter 2022

The Winter 2022 session of the California Medieval History Seminar will take place online instead of at its usual venue, the Huntington Library. The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers  Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read the papers in advance and discuss the research. Click here for additional information about the seminar.

The following papers will be discussed at the seminar and available for download in advance:
• Richard Rush (UC, Riverside) “The Life of the Jura Fathers”
• Jane Beal (University of La Verne) “A Medieval Search for the Historical Jesus? The Vita Christi in Ranulf Higden’s Latin Compilation and John Trevisa’s English Translation”
• Alan Bernstein (University of Arizona) “Hell on Horseback: Damning Others in Tales of the First Crusade”
• Jessica Zisa (UC, Santa Barbara) “Botte for I am a woman’: Loving and Willing with Julian of Norwich’s Extended Mind”

Participants must be graduate students or faculty to attend unless pre-approved by the organizers.

To be added to the announcement list or, if you wish to attend but are uncertain if you qualify, please write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

Organized by Professor Piotr Górecki, Department of History, University of California, Riverside.

Click here to register on Zoom.

9:30 am – 4:00 pm Pacific Time