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Charles Briggs, Theology in the City Public Lecture

"The Pandemic and Petrarch: Some Reflections on Secular Crises and Cultural Change"


Date & time
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Registration is closed

Speaker(s)

Charles Briggs, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Vermont

Cost

This event is free

Where

F. C. Smith Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Loyola Chapel

Room 110

Wheel chair accessible

No

Charles Briggs in front of shelves of books. His head is shaved and he wears rectangular black framed glasses. He wears a navy blue button-up shirt. Charles Briggs, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Vermont.

In this public lecture, Charles Briggs, senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Vermont, will put the plague pandemic and broader 'crisis of the fourteenth century' in conversation with the history and historiography of early Renaissance humanism. He'll argue that the crisis had a profound impact on not only the development and trajectory of humanism but also how we think about the 'medieval' and the 'modern.'


This event is part of:

Legacy: Wisdom, Experience, Knowledge

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