Event Calendar

Print this page
Becoming a Saint, Twice: The Two Canonizations of a 13th Century Porter

Becoming a Saint, Twice: The Two Canonizations of a 13th Century Porter

  • Date:
    Thursday, February 9, 2012
  • Time:
    4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Organizer:
    Center for Religion and Civic Culture
  • Campus:
    University Park Campus
  • Venue:
    Social Sciences Building (SOS)
  • Room:
    250
  • Cost:
    Free. To RSVP, click here.
  • Email:
    crcc@usc.edu

Add event to my calendar DIGG This Post to Facebook Post to Reddit Post to StumbleUpon

Summary:

Enjoy a wine tasting and scholarly discussion with Lester K. Little of Smith College, past president of the Medieval Academy of America.

Description:

The Interdisciplinary Research Working Group on Religion and Material Culture presents a program that includes a scholarly discussion of wine, wine casks, wine carriers and saints, and a sampling of the goods.

Refreshments will be provided (attendees must be 21 or older to be served alcohol).

Lester K. Little is Dwight W. Morrow professor emeritus and a senior fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. He is a former director of the American Academy in Rome, a past president of the Medieval Academy of America, and a past president of the International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, Art History and History in Rome. From 2000 to 2005, he served on the board of directors of the Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange between Italy and the United States.

A specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Little has published Nature, Man and Society: New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West (a translation of M.–D. Chenu, La Theologie au 12e Siecle) (1968); Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (1978); Liberty, Charity, Fraternity: Lay Religious Confraternities at Bergamo in the Age of the Commune (1988); Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (1993); and, with Barbara H. Rosenwein, Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings (1998). His most recent publication is Plague and the End of Antiquity: the Pandemic of 541–750 (Cambridge University Press, December 2006); it is a collection Little edited of essays by 12 scholars on the history, archaeology and epidemiology of the so–called Plague of Justinian, the first historically documented pandemic of bubonic plague in history.

To reserve a place and receive the paper, click here.