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Professor Gert Melville Returns to Speak on March 21

At 2 p.m. on Tuesday March 21 in the Camellia Room of Gorgas Library, Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University, will deliver a lecture entitled “Desire and Perseverance. Observations on the Anthropology of Monks and Nuns in the Middle Ages.”   The talk is open to the public. Professor Melville has taught at Dresden since 1994 and is the author of more than four decades’ worth of scholarship on religious life, religious orders, and the broader religious and cultural […]

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