[Namron] Medieval Fair Lecture Calendar Updates

[Eckart, Ann M.]

The 2014-2015 Medieval Fair Department Free Lecture Series begins this Friday!
Bonus Lecture
Sept 12, 2014 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, Lowry Room
"Revival of Traditional Germanic Long Sword Fencing"
Presented by Master of Arms Jerry Benson of Redlands Fencing Center
With Instructor Dustin Reagan and Assistant Chad Unruh
http://redlandsfencing.com/olympic_historical_theatrical_fencing/historical

Lecture 1
Sept. 19, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, A/B Room
"Singing in the Streets: Reconstructing the Stational Liturgies of an Early Medieval City"
Dr. Benjamin Brand, University of North Texas, College of Music
"In the centuries of political and economic instability that followed the Sack of Rome (410), the bishops of Lucca, in northern Tuscany, embraced the text, music, and ritual of "stational liturgy." This paper will look at how these religious processions from church to church, accompanied by solemn singing, helped to preserve the fragile religious and political unity of the city."
http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/detail/12
Banjamin.Brand at unt.edu<mailto:Banjamin.Brand at unt.edu>

Lecture 2
Oct. 17, 2014 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. West Wind Unitarian Universalist Church, 1309 West Boyd St.
"The Cathar Heresy in the Sculpture of Fourteenth-Century Cordes"
Dr. Catherine Barrett, University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture
Most medieval sculptures are found on churches, and express orthodox views. The sculptures in Cordes, in the south of France, are on private mansions, and may be the only artistic record of the Cathar experience to survive the heresy's suppression by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century.
https://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/division_of_architecture/Faculty/catherine-barrett.html

Lecture 3
Nov. 21, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, A/B Room
"Machiavelli and the Corruption of Politics"
This presentation will examine how Niccolò Machiavelli radically altered the meaning and goal of politics as understood by classical and medieval political theorists.
Dr. Kevin Crow, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
http://usao.edu/directory/kevin-crow
kcrow at usao.edu<mailto:kcrow at usao.edu>





Ann Marie Eckart
Medieval Fair Coordinator
PACE - Professional, Academic and Community Education
Phone 405-325-8610     Fax 405-325-0860
ameckart at ou.edu<mailto:ameckart at ou.edu>
www.medievalfair.org<http://www.medievalfair.org/>

(The 39th Annual Medieval Fair of Norman will be March 27, 28 & 29, 2015.  Just 200 days away!)


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