Texas Tech University

Texas Medieval Association Conference begins today

Medievalists.net

October 25, 2018

Medievalists.net - Texas Tech University’s Medieval & Renaissance Studies Center is hosting the 28th annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association. The festivities begin today with a Pre-Modern Bible Symposium, hosted in conjunction with “Pre-Modern Bibles; From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Complutensian Polygot Bible,” an exhibition of original manuscripts and facsimiles displayed at the Museum of Texas Tech University.

Frans van Liere and Katherine van Liere from Calvin College will speak at the symposium on the medieval study of the Bible and on the Spanish Renaissance context of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. A reception and a concert of Spanish Renaissance music from Texas Tech's Collegium Musicum, directed by Angela Mariani, associate professor of musicology in the School of Music will follow the symposium. The symposium, reception and concert will be hosted in the Museum's Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium and Sculpture Court and are free and open to the public.

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