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Read article: Festschrift in honor of Professor Charles D. Wright
Festschrift in honor of Professor Charles D. Wright
On August 15, 2023, Brepols released a new book: Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honor of Charles D. Wright. For 32 years, Professor Charlie Wright taught in the English department at the University of Illinois, serving as Associate Head of...
Read article: Overland documentary screening and falconry demonstration
Overland documentary screening and falconry demonstration
On April 21, Medieval Studies partnered with the Spurlock Museum for a film screening and falconry demonstration, and attendees flocked to the event! Local falconry enthusiasts joined the Medieval Studies community for a screening of the 2020 documentary film...
Read article: MDVL@Illinois welcomes Professor Geraldine Heng
MDVL@Illinois welcomes Professor Geraldine Heng
The Program in Medieval Studies is excited to partner with the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory to welcome Professor Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) to the University of Illinois on January 26. Professor Heng will deliver...
Read article: MDVL@Illinois celebrates end of Fall semester
MDVL@Illinois celebrates end of Fall semester
Affiliates and friends of the Program in Medieval Studies gathered in early December to celebrate the end of the fall semester. Guests enjoyed holiday snacks and beverages while catching up with friends and colleagues. The highlight of the event was a celebration of seasonal poetry, with both...
Read article: Medieval Studies Colloquium: Dr. Sarah Davis-Secord
Medieval Studies Colloquium: Dr. Sarah Davis-Secord
"The Saint and the Emir: Christian-Muslim Encounters in Early Medieval Italy" Within the incredibly diverse political, cultural, and linguistic landscape of early medieval southern Italy, Muslims lived and worked alongside Christians (both Latin and Greek) and Jews. While most of...
Read article: Graduate Student Summer Research
Graduate Student Summer Research
This summer I conducted archaeological excavations at the Carson site near Clarksdale, Mississippi.  This is a mound center used and occupied by Mississippian peoples beginning around the year A.D. 1000 until the time of European contact.  My research explores the connections between this...
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Essays on Medieval Rhetoric

Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the essays are concerned with the teaching of prose composition, especially the art of letter writing known as the ars dictaminis, and many of them focus on specific textbooks that were used for such instruction, in particular those composed in England from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Individual essays are devoted to works by major figures such as Saint Augustine, Peter of Blois, and...

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