{"id":3014,"date":"2016-02-25T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:09:46","slug":"25th-annual-bernardo-lecture-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/02\/25\/25th-annual-bernardo-lecture-march-3\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Annual Bernardo Lecture March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, celebrating 50 years as an organized research center, will host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/cemers\/lectures.html\">the 25th Annual Bernardo Lecture<\/a>\u00a0at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in AM-189, the Admissions Center.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Carruthers, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature Emerita, New York University, will speak on \u201cTerror, Horror, and the Fear of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 12th-century monastic revivals of desert spirituality, \u2018the cell\u2019 comes to subsume the notion of \u2018desert.\u2019 It does so because of the meditation practices that each place, though physically so different, was thought to enable. Solitude, silence, literary study, confined space, night-time \u2014 that is the 12th-century European \u2018desert.\u2019 Focusing on Peter of Celle\u2019s teachings concerning monastic reading, as well as the dramatic circumstances of Augustine\u2019s conversion (Confessions 8), this essay argues that well-known practices conventional in Latin rhetoric during the procedures of invention are of great importance in understanding the mystagogy of sacra pagina in the west.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome. A reception precedes the lecture at 4 p.m. in AM-177.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, celebrating 50 years as an organized research center, will host\u00a0the 25th Annual Bernardo Lecture\u00a0at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in AM-189, the Admissions Center. Mary Carruthers, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature Emerita, New York University, will speak on \u201cTerror, Horror, and the Fear of God.\u201d In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-binghamton-university-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}