Tag: Religion

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Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture Conference

  An International Conference Hosted by The University of Alabama, in Partnership with the University of Dresden   October 17-20, 2018 THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Tuscaloosa, Alabama       For a thousand years and more, from the sixth to the sixteenth century and beyond, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their learning, piety, and expertise, and for their embodiment of Christian ideals and values, they were accorded […]

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Professor Gert Melville Visits Department

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. He is founder and director of […]

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Professor Gert Melville to Present “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages.”

Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University of Technology, will speak on “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages” on Thursday, March 3, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. in the Summersell Room (251 ten Hoor). 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. He […]

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University of Wisconsin Prof. Ron Numbers to Present “Baptizing Dinosaurs: How Once-Suspect Evidence of Evolution Came to Support the Biblical Narrative,” Thursday, November 12, 2015, 7:30 PM

Dr. Ron Numbers, professor emeritus in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be on the University of Alabama campus on Thursday, November 12 to speak as part of the ALLELE (ALabama LEctures on Life’s Evolution) seminar series. His talk, “Baptizing Dinosaurs: How Once-Suspected Evidence of Evolution Came to Support the Biblical Narrative,” will be at 7:30 pm in 125 ten Hoor Hall. Ron L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, […]

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