The Premodern Colloquium is a reading group that has been meeting for thirty years in the home of Tom Green (Law School, History) by whom it was founded as a forum for discussion of new work in the history of law. In recent years it has evolved into a wide-ranging multidisciplinary group. Typically discussions focus on works-in-progress by local and visiting scholars or dissertation chapters presented by our own students. Discussions tend to be intense and lively, but people who present work also find the experience to be friendly and helpful. We especially welcome graduate students to our regular meetings, both as discussants and as presenters of dissertation work in progress.
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Semester Offerings: Winter 2013
JANUARY 20 Douglas Trevor English, University of Michigan
“Radical Charity and the Long Reformation: Literature, Belief, and
Transgressive Forms of Love in Early Modern England”
FEBRUARY 17 Ellen Wurtzel History, Oberlin College
“Enlargement . . . will serve the common use and protection of all:
Fortified Walls and Uniform Jurisdiction in 17th-Century Lille”
MARCH 17 Benjamin Braude History, Boston College
“The Rabbinic and Patristic Castration and Exposure of Noah in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages”
APRIL 14
To be announced
