Tag: religious life


Medieval Conference a Success

October 2018, the Department of History at The University of Alabama partnered with the University of Dresden to present the conference “Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture.” The conference ran from 17-20 October and included speakers from across the U.S. and Europe discussing the identity and significance of elites in the Medieval context. The conference was organized by our own Dr. James Mixson and Dresden’s Prof. Gert Melville, who led the opening talk and closing roundtable. Dr. John Van Engen […]

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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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