Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

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Welcome to our thriving community of medievalists

Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley (GMB) is an organization comprised of doctoral students engaged in the study of medieval literature, history, art, music, languages, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Since its establishment in 1993, the GMB has witnessed and actively participated in the continued growth of medieval studies here at Berkeley. By organizing lectures, faculty conversations, social activities, reading groups, and other events we have created a strong community of graduate students that extends throughout nearly every humanities and social sciences department in the University. The GMB would not exist without the continued support of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and new support of the Institute for European Studies, which sponsors the Paleography Working Group.

 

We hope that you use this website to get in touch with us, keep in touch with us, or simply stay attuned to the various medieval activities at Berkeley. If you are currently studying at Berkeley and are interested in participating in the GMB, please do not hesitate to contact us, as we would love to meet you. If you are not currently at Berkeley, but are visiting or simply interested in the various programs here, then you too should let us know that you exist; it would be our pleasure to include you in future activities. The majority of information is dispersed through our mailing list, so if you are a medievalist at Berkeley please consider joining by following the link on the left. 

 

Ultimately, the GMB is a colloquial group, which offers students the opportunity to engage with one another intellectually and socially.

 

Cheers, 

Benjamin Saltzman and Chad Crosson

GMB co-chairs

 

 

 

 

Upcoming

Thursday, 11 Mar 2010
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Paleography Working Group

Thursday, 11 Mar 2010
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Old English Reading Group

Friday, 12 Mar 2010
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ryan Perry - "Ostentatious Orthodoxy: E Museo 35 & Spectacular Religiosity in Fifteenth-Century England."

Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Latin Reading Group

Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Latin Reading Group

GMB News

Spring Social

To start off the new semester, GMB would like to invite you to join your fellow medievalists for a drink at Beckett's Pub on Shattuck.  The date for this event will be Thursday, January 28th at 7:30pm, following Vincent Gillespie's lecture. 

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Yule Social

You and yours are invited to the annual GMB Yule Social!

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A dose of medieval . . .

‘Talis,’ inquiens, ‘mihi uidetur, rex, uita hominum praesens in terris, ad conparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumali, accenso quidem foco in medio, et calido effecto caenaculo, furentibus autem foris per omnia turbinibus hiemalium pluuiarum uel niuium, adueniens unus passeium domum citissime peruolauerit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen paruissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec uita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidue praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. Unde si haec noua doctrina certius aliquid attulit, merito esse sequenda uidetur.’

                                                            One of King Edwin's advisers describes a sparrow flying through the hall

                                                            Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum, II.13 

 

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