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<p class="MsoNormal">The 2014-2015 Medieval Fair Department Free Lecture Series begins this Friday!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Bonus Lecture<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sept 12, 2014 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, Lowry Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Revival of Traditional Germanic Long Sword Fencing" <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presented by Master of Arms <b>Jerry Benson</b> of Redlands Fencing Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With Instructor Dustin Reagan and Assistant Chad Unruh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://redlandsfencing.com/olympic_historical_theatrical_fencing/historical">http://redlandsfencing.com/olympic_historical_theatrical_fencing/historical</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1>Lecture 1<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sept. 19, 2014, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, A/B Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black">“Singing in the Streets: Reconstructing the Stational Liturgies of an Early Medieval City”</span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. Benjamin Brand</span></b><span style="color:black">, University of North Texas, College of Music
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">"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."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/detail/12">http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/detail/12</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Banjamin.Brand@unt.edu">Banjamin.Brand@unt.edu</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1>Lecture 2<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oct. 17, 2014 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. West Wind Unitarian Universalist Church, 1309 West Boyd St.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black">“The Cathar Heresy in the Sculpture of Fourteenth-Century Cordes”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Catherine Barrett</b>, University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/division_of_architecture/Faculty/catherine-barrett.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">https://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/division_of_architecture/Faculty/catherine-barrett.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1>Lecture 3<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nov. 21, 2014, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Norman Public Library, A/B Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Machiavelli and the Corruption of Politics”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This presentation will examine how Niccolò Machiavelli radically altered the meaning and goal of politics as understood by classical and medieval political theorists.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Kevin Crow</b>, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://usao.edu/directory/kevin-crow">http://usao.edu/directory/kevin-crow</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:kcrow@usao.edu">kcrow@usao.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ann Marie Eckart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Medieval Fair Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PACE – Professional, Academic and Community Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Phone 405-325-8610 Fax 405-325-0860
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ameckart@ou.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">ameckart@ou.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.medievalfair.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:purple">www.medievalfair.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:purple"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(The 39<sup>th</sup> Annual Medieval Fair of Norman will be March 27, 28 & 29, 2015. Just 200 days away!)<o:p></o:p></p>
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