While it has often been held that an appetite for the marvelous in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance reflects the predominance of superstition and ‘pre-scientific’ thinking, modern scholarship has increasingly come to see it as a discourse worth taking seriously in its own right. The speakers in our 2006-07 series will evoke a wide variety of premodern marvels for us in what promises to be a truly marvelous series.

Unless indicated otherwise, each lecture will begin at 2:30 pm on Friday in the Science and Engineering Library, room 090.  Conversation with the speaker for both Faculty and Graduate Students will be held immediately afterward in the same room.  Refreshments will be provided.  Posters downloadable below.