Date/Time
Date(s) - 1 Apr 2014
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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The final meeting of the University Seminar on Medieval Studies for the 2013-2014 academic year will take place on Tuesday, April 1, from 6:00-7:30pm in Room 2 of Faculty House (Columbia University). Please note the change from the usual 5:30pm start time.
Joseph Alchermes, of Connecticut College, will speak on
“Peter, Paul, Piety, and Parentes: Early Evidence for Apostolic Remembrance in Rome”
A range of texts and other documentary sources attest the commemoration of the principes apostolorum in Early Christian and early medieval Rome. The oldest and most frequently cited testimony, furnished by prominent fourth- and fifth-century churchmen such as Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Paulinus of Nola, and Prudentius, focuses on the great basilicas of Peter and Paul, linking with them certain commemorative practices and events. This presentation will consider humbler forms of evidence that point to the involvement in apostolic commemoration of more lowly social groups, both residents of the city and Italian peregrini traveling to Rome.
PLEASE NOTE:
The talk will be followed by dinner at Faculty House. All those who wish to dine with the speaker after the talk must make reservations by contacting the rapporteur of the seminar, Jeffrey Wayno, either by phone or by email (jmw2202 [at] columbia [dot] edu) no later than one week before the talk. Dinner is a fixed buffet menu, which costs $25 per person. Payment can be made by checks made out to “Columbia University.”