{"id":49669,"date":"2011-10-17T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49669"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:45","slug":"medieval-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/17\/medieval-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval scholars visit to discuss &#039;Responses to Hard Times&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/jones5441-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/jones5441-web-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Michael Jones\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times.<\/p>\n<p>Yet scholars visiting Bates for the <em>Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times<\/em> conference know that things could be even tougher. Bates hosts the 38th annual New England Medieval Conference beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Registration, with a continental breakfast, begins at 9 a.m. Lunch will be served in Bates&#8217; New Commons. At 5 p.m. a reception takes place in the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. The conference is open to the public. Registration is $25. To register or for more information, please call 207-786-6400 or visit bit.ly\/Bates-medieval.<\/p>\n<p>Among the presenters is Bates professor of history Michael Jones, who will present the lecture <em>The Worst of Times and the Worst of Times: Climate, Famine, and Pestilence during the Medieval Transitions<\/em>. Jones&#8217; talk will explore the sixth and 14th centuries in terms of climatic deterioration, famine and epidemic, revealing parallel miseries that afflicted both of these transitional periods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/10\/07\/jones-antiquaries\/\">Jones<\/a> belongs to an international interdisciplinary team, led by Bates colleague Gerry Bigelow, studying a village in the Shetland Islands that was buried by blowing sand over a period of decades in the 17 and 18th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Conference topics range from the plague to the connection between physical disabilities and royal ambition, from the rise of stock markets to depictions of grieving for the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Another Maine presenter is V\u00e9ronique Plesch, a professor of art at Colby College, who will give a presentation on graffiti and frescoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times. 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