Friday, January 24 / 9 AM- 4:30PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

In the past few years, a number of scholars working on premodern European culture have turned to the history of the emotions: anger, grief, fear, guilt and contrition. This is part of a broader turn towards new ways to think about subjectivity in the past. Because the Christian church required that sinners experience contrition, an inner transformation, in order to be forgiven and have a chance at salvation, representations of sin and forgiveness allow glimpses of the complex ways in which late medieval people understood interior experience.

Speakers:

Thomas N. Tentler,
“Deathbed forgiveness from Abelard to Luther.”
History Department, University of Michigan.
Allen J. Frantzen,
"Pardon Me: The Scene of Confession in Anglo-Saxon England"
English Department, Loyola University of Chicago.
Konrad Eisenbichler,
"Confratelli and Compagnacci: Sin, Boys, and Confraternities in Renaissance Florence."
Professor of Italian Studies and Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Christine Göttler,
“Shaping the soul: Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino's wax figures of the Four Last Things and their aristocratic owners”
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington.

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