Poverty and Wealth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

October 12-13, 2001

Convivium, The Siena Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is pleased to invite you to our second annual interdisciplinary conference: Poverty and Wealth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, October 12-13, 2001, at Siena College, Loudonville NY.

Plenary Speakers: *** Kathleen Ashley *** Barbara Hanawalt *** Nancy S.Struever ***

Upstate New York is gorgeous in October and sessions include the following:

• Piers Plowman
  
• Greed is Bad: Early Modern Views of Poverty
  
• Injustice and Corruption: Scourges of Poverty
  
• Picturing Poverty
  
• Women, Wealth and Poverty
  
• Roundtable: Franciscan Poverty and Medieval Economy
  
• Medievalism: Popular Culture and Views of the Past
  
• Philosophy, Politics and the Problem of Poverty in the Middle Ages
  
• Poverty and the Meditaciones Vitae Christi
  
• Chivalry, Poverty, and Popular Literature
  
• Power, Social Class and Poverty

For more information, please contact:

Kate Forhan Ph.D.
Director, Convivium
Siena College
515 Loudon Rd
Loudonville NY 12211-1462
forhan@siena.edu

Phone: 518-783-2325

or check: http://www.siena.edu/convivium for the preliminary program and registration information.

(posted 8/23/01)