The 41st annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium will take place today (Friday) and Saturday, April 10–11. This year’s theme is “Peace and War,” and the Colloquium will draw scholars from across the country and the world. It will feature papers concerned with such topics as military history and the process of peace-making, allegorical warfare, the literature of the Hundred Years War, the culture of knighthood, Jerusalem as a symbol of peace and conquest, and the crusades.
Ardis Butterfield, the John M. Schiff Professor of English and professor of French and music at Yale University, will give the Edward King Lecture of the Colloquium. Butterfield has written extensively on the works of Chaucer, as well as on 14th- and 15th-century French poetry, and medieval music. She will talk at 6 p.m., today, April 10, in Gailor Auditorium on “Borderline Borderlines: French, English and Anglo-French in the Middle Ages.”
Jonathan Phillips, professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, will give the Brinley Rhys Lecture. Phillips has written numerous books on the crusades, including “Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades” (Bodley Head) Phillips will talk at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in Gailor Auditorium, on “Trade, Crusade and Religious Debate: The Context of the Third Crusade.”
For the complete schedule or more information go to <www.medievalcolloquium.sewanee.edu>.
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