Sentences with phrase «medieval studies at»

Michael Fragoso is a policy analyst at the Family Research Council who studied classics and medieval studies at Princeton University.

Michael Hannon studies philosophy, religion, and medieval studies at Columbia University.

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I was a twenty - seven - year - old junior professor of medieval and Reformation theology at the University of Nottingham, and I happened to be in town for a day or two of study.

Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.

It stemmed from a fateful turning point that came at the height of medieval Islamic civilization, with the advent of «new interpreters of Islam who taught that acquisition of knowledge by Muslims meant only the study of Islamic theology.

Gustave E. von Grunebaum is an Islamic scholar who seeks to observe Islam objectively, neither as a Westerner nor as an Islamic apologist; his Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation is a perceptive, and at times provocative, analysis of the period of development following the initial expansion of Islam.

To judge the prize, the Council will be joined by leading experts in related disciplines, including US food scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

Her colleague on the excavation Søren Sindbæk, who is a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University, adds: «The discovery of the new Viking fortress is a unique opportunity to learn more about the battles and conflicts of the Vikings, and gives us a new chance to study the most famous of our Viking monuments.»

Sarah Hainsworth, study author and Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Leicester explains, «Richard's injuries represent a sustained attack or an attack by several assailants with weapons from the later medieval period.

«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.

Mauro first questioned the science behind medieval glass while studying Gorilla Glass at Corning, where he worked for 18 years perfecting the product found in billions of electronic devices.

If you look at the proxy portion of the new Moberg graphic, you see nothing that would be problematic for opponents of the hockey stick: it shows a striking Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a cold Little Ice Age and 20th century warming not quite reaching MWP levels by 1979, when the proxy portion of the study ends.

It is even more outrageous when you look in detail at what is actually involved in collecting the proxy data used in the medieval period in the key multiproxy studies.

Medieval versions are much closer and easier to study: still extant in the roaming sampradayas being researched by the daring scholars of the Hatha Yoga Project at SOAS.

Juliette Le Gall is a visiting professor of French Medieval Studies researching and teaching at Noah's university for a semester.

«One of the great things about being here at HGSE is that you get to study marginalized groups in a modern sense, but the methodology and theory behind it can be applied very broadly,» says Piro, whose research centers on studying disability in Europe's early medieval period.

For a person whose passion is medieval history, a school of education might not seem a natural fit, but for Valerie Piro pursuing a master's in higher education at HGSE — while seemingly unusual — makes perfect sense in her path toward a Ph.D. in medieval studies.

Charlotte will be taking a place at Colchester Sixth Form College to study A levels in Maths, Further Maths, Medieval History and Physics.

At Swarthmore College, she majored in Medieval Studies.

He continued his study of Greek and Latin literature, as well as medieval philosophy, scripture, and theology, at Fordham University, where he completed both a B.A. in classical literature and philosophy, and a pontifical degree in philosophy.

I also maintain the Ancient and Medieval Studies and Papyrology, Epigraphy and Paleography Reading Rooms, and work at the Reference Desk.

Since studying modern and medieval French literature at Cambridge University, Louise has written for Financial Times, The Independent, Telegraph Travel and Condé Nast in the UK and for Zagat and Google in the US.

You'll study at Uppsala University's Campus Gotland, located in Visby on the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden — the best - preserved Medieval city in Scandinavia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

I studied for a degree and PhD in Medieval History at Cardiff University in the 1980s and 1990s and I have lived and worked in Swansea since 1998.

She meant to study ancient Egyptian art until she took a class at Columbia with Meyer Schapiro, who championed both medieval art and Jackson Pollock.

By starting the story in the 1730s (with a long glance backwards) and continuing into the early career of A.W.N. Pugin, Lindfield makes it plain that Gothic changed and developed through the period he discusses; he does not devote a single chapter to Strawberry Hill, but returns to it at key points in his narrative, tracing how Walpole's Gothic evolved from a repertoire of ornament derived from pattern books to a style based on a study of medieval precedent.

Smith is a PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University, where he studies architecture and the built — environment in late — medieval Europe.

Saisha Grayson received an MA in Contemporary Art & Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and is currently a PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY where she focuses on contemporary art, feminist theory and museum practices, with a dash of medieval and film studies thrStudies from Columbia University and is currently a PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY where she focuses on contemporary art, feminist theory and museum practices, with a dash of medieval and film studies thrstudies thrown in.

She studied modern and medieval art at New York's Columbia University, finishing her studies in the late 1970s.

All of the studies we analysed reported at least three distinct climatic periods over the last millennium — two warm periods (the «Medieval Warm Period» and the «Current Warm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age»).

At multidecadal and longer timescales, evidence from treeline, glacier, and chironomid studies suggests southwestern North America and adjacent regions experienced elevated temperatures on the order of 1 °C or less above long - term means during some or all of the medieval period (refs.

The place to go is a repository of peer - reviewed localized reconstructions to be found at http://www.co2science.org/data/mwp/description.php It main contain some bias, but overwhelmingly around 180 studies from around the world point to a medieval warm period that was at least as warm as today, and much greater variability in climate that the hockey stick graph.

Evidence of warming on the Kola Peninsula (c. AD 1000 — 1300) is provided by treeline studies, which show that pine grew at least 100 — 140 m above the modern limit during the Medieval period, which corresponds to a (summer or annual average) temperature at least 0.8 °C higher than today (Hiller et al. 2001).

Global Loehle (2007): http://www.ncasi.org/publications/Detail.aspx?id=3025 In this study, eighteen 2000 - year - long series were obtained that were not based on tree ring data... The mean series shows the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) quite clearly, with the MWP being approximately 0.3 °C warmer than 20th century values at these eighteen sites.

Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during medieval times when parts of the northern hemisphere were as hot as, or hotter, than today, according to a new study in the journal Geology.