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• Sweet ’16: A Celebration of Centenaries from the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1016-2016

  Friday, October 21, 2016 | By Brock University

  The Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

  presents

  Sweet ’16:

  A Celebration of Centenaries

  from the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1016-2016

   

  Date: Friday October 21, 2016

  Time: 10:00 a.m. – Noon

  Location: Special Collections & Archives,

  James A. Gibson Library (10th Floor)

   

  2016 is a Year of Significant Anniversaries from the Middle Ages and Renaissance:

  • Aethelred II and Cnut: 1000 years since the Danish conquest of England, 1016
  • 800 years since the death of King John (of Magna Carta fame), 1216
  • 400 years since the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, 1616

  
  10:00am     Opening remarks: Carol Merriam, Dean of Humanities, Ernesto Virgulti, MARS Director

  10:10am     Aethelred II and Cnut: 1000 years since the Danish conquest of England:

                    Prof. Angus Somerville (English, retired)

  10:30am     King John (1199-1216) 800 years on: Prof. Andrew McDonald (History)

  10:45am     Shakespeare 400 years on:  Prof. Mathew Martin (English)

  11:00am     Cervantes 400 years on:  Prof. Felipe Ruan (MLLC)

  11:15am     Questions/discussion

  11:30am     Dramatic readings: Angus Somerville, Dr. Renee-Claude Breitenstein, Andrew McDonald, Felipe Ruan

  11:45am     Concluding remarks: Ernesto Virgulti and David Sharron, Special Collections and Archives

   

  Exhibition in Special Collection & Archives available for viewing

  Refreshments courtesy of the Department of History and the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

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