Medieval-Renaissance Conference at
UVa-Wise Sept. 16-18

The eighteenth-annual Medieval-Renaissance Conference at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will be held September 16-18. All sessions are free and open to the public.

Begun in 1986 by two UVa-Wise English professors, the late Jack Mahony and Richard Peake, the Medieval-Renaissance Conference brings together scholars from across the nation and encourages discussions of all aspects of medieval and renaissance culture.

This year’s keynote speaker is Bruce O’Brien, professor of history at the University of Mary Washington. O’Brien, who will discuss “Medieval Englishness Reconsidered,” is the author of God’s Peace and King’s Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor.

More than 40 professors from regional and national universities, including the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, and the University of North Carolina, are scheduled to participate. Session topics include: Art and Music; Elizabethan-Jacobean Literature; Medieval Philosophy and History; Shakespeare; Good and Bad in the Middle Ages; Milton; Powerful Women in the Middle Ages; Arthurian History and Literature; Contexts and Reception: Sacred and Secular; Old English Dreams and Visions; Poetry and Poetics; and Middle English Literature in Context.

A complete listing of Medieval-Renaissance Conference activities is available on line at www.uvawise.edu/college_relations/medieval_renaissance_schedule_04.html.

For more information, contact Kenneth Tiller, associate professor of English and chair of the Medieval-Renaissance Conference, at (276) 376-4587 or via e-mail at k_tiller@uvawise.edu.