Professor Gert Melville Visits Department

Professors Gert Melville and James Mixson
Professors Gert Melville and James Mixson

Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University of Technology, delivered a lecture entitled “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages” on Thursday, March 3, 2015, in the Summersell Room.

Melville has taught at the Dresden University of Technology since 1994, and is the author of four decades’ worth of scholarship on religious life, religious orders, and the broader religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages.

The traditional edible edition.
The traditional edible edition.

He is founder and director of the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG) at the Dresden University of Technology, and during the last twenty years he has been the principal investigator for a series of major research projects under the auspices of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The department also celebrated publication of the English translation of Melville’s work, The World of Medieval Monasticism, which was translated by our own James Mixson.

This event was sponsored by the Department of History, the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts & Sciences, the European History Workshop, and the Bankhead Fund.