Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts
Jones 202 Jones Hall, PrincetonComparative Diplomatics Workshops are a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council, co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. Join the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop with Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel) presenting “Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts” All are welcome. Conveners: Tom Conlan (EAS/History), Helmut Reimitz (History), Marina Rustow (NES/History) Coordinator: […]
Metrical Latin lives of Mohammed
East Pyne 010 East Pyne 010, PrincetonThe Latin verse lives of Mohammed appear suddenly between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, developing in a novelistic direction the hints of the prose biographies or biographical passages written between VIII and X centuries. Embrico of Mainz (XI c.) and Walter of Compiègne (XII c.) go much beyond the educational and apologetic necessities raised by […]
