NOVEMBER 2005

DIVISION FOR LATE MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION STUDIES

DeaeRT DJ\RVeSTCOLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

"People ask me why I take an interest in this little division for medieval and Reformation studies, and I saythat we have an obligatin to keep the story of our civilization alive."

-The Honorable Stanley G. Feldman, Chair, Advisory Board

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m-0 can anticipate where. • treasures lie? In September,

. " the Special Collections. Librarian Roger Myers and I

drove out to Oro Valley to thehome of Margaret Molla. Mrs.Molla had invited us to inspect partof her inheritance, a 1586 editionof Lutheran teacher, deacon, andpastor Conrad Porta's PastoraleLutheri, a collection of MartinLuther's writings on the educationand duties of pastors. Mrs. Mollainherited this rarity from her father,Artemus I-10m, who in turnreceived it from his father, the Rev.William Jacob Horn. An earlierancestor had carried it in thenineteenth century from Saxony toSt. Louis. Mrs. Molla recalls thather grandfather, like his own fathera Lutheran clergyman, gatheredneighboring pastors, all German-speakers, in his home on Sundayafternoons, to pore through thisvolume for instruction andinspiration. They regarded it as awellspring of wisdom. The well-worn pages suggest that these menfound what they repeatedly sought.

How fortunate the UA Librariesare to become the repository of thisancient devotional work! Mrs.Molla providentially decided thatfuture generations should derivethe benefits of this book, and, withproper receipts, she sent it withRoger and me to its permanent newhome-along with a four-volume,

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Town & Gown to come:Andrew Greeley Banquet 3

New associated faculty:Kari McBride 4

Guest scholar:Charles Zika 4

Guest scholar:Carlos Eire 5

Fall fundraiser 5

Nice summer 6

Acquiring German 7

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pre-Revoluntionary Frenchobstetrical handbook that she hadreceived from the estate of aphysician-aunt. Division graduatestudents will consult Porta'santhology during spring semester2006, when I shall preside over aseminar on Reformation clergy andpreaching. This book will transportus all back through the centuries toPorta's (and Luther's) Eisleben.

Heiko Oberman's own hugeresearch collection similarly holdsout to Arizonans the promise of itsriches. Our ongoing task is to finishthe work, well begun, of endowingthe Oberman Chair so that our ownpublic university can acquire forour common use an even morecomprehensive body of literature toinspire us and expand ourintellects. As I observed last yearupon leaming of an anonymousbenefactor's $300,000 challengegift, if each recipient of thisnewsletter contributes $200 beforeDecember 31, 2006, we shallmatch and acquire the entire$300,000. I extend my hand intribute to those of you who havealready given. Like Mrs. Molla,you have seen the desirability ofbestowing not just these rare booksas valuable artifacts but especiallytheir illuminating contents uponfuture generations.

Do you have historic books inyour home that should bepreserved for posterity?

A SEMI-ANNUALNEWSLETTER OFTHE DIVISION FORLATE MEDIEVAL ANDREFORMATIONSTUDIES

Founded in 1989 byHeiko A. Oberman(1930-2001), Regents'Professor of History

DIRECTOR

Professor Susan C. Karant- unn

PROGRAM COORDINATOR, SENIOR

Luise Betterton

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Professor Alan E. Bernstein,Emeritus

Professor Pia F. CuneoProfessor David L. GraizbordProfessor Kari McBrideProfessor Helen Nader

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Stanley Feldman, ChairRichard DuffieldSandy HatfieldJennifer Carrell HelenboltMorris MartinHester ObermanToetie ObermanGeorge RosenbergHelen SchaeferJohn SchaeferBazy Tankersley

The University of ArizonaDouglass Building 315P.O. Box 210028Tucson, Arizona 85721-0028(520) 621-1284Fax: (520) 626-5444http://dlmrs.web.arizona.edu

• In case you have not been our visitor, the main office of the Division affords its only view through a round window.

Victoria Christman

Joshua Rosenthal

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Division NewsCongratulations

Victoria Christman, Division doctoralstudent, successfully defended herdissertation in August, on the Inquisition inthe Low Countries, and she and herhusband Professor Robert Christman,Division alumnus, welcomed a daughter,Sophia Elizabeth, into the world onOctober 17.

Both parents began their positions thisfall as assistant professors at LutherCollege in Decorah, Iowa. They are alsoboth to be congratulated on receivingresearch grants from the Herzog AugustBibliothek, WolfenbOttel, Germany, for2005/06.

Pia F. Cuneo, Associate Professor of ArtHistory and associate faculty of theDivision, was awarded the Roy A. andStardust K. Johnson Faculty MentoringAward.

CynthiaAnn Gonzales, HistoryDepartment doctoral student of ProfessorHelen Nader, received a summer grantfrom Spain's Ministry of Culture to continueher research on conditions for women inValencia, Spain, 1550-1600. She has nowreturned to the U.S. and is curating for theNational Portrait Gallery in WashingtonD.C. while writing her dissertation.

Kathryn Jasper, History Departmentdoctoral student of Professor Alan E.Bernstein, has published in the Journal ofthe Southwest (Spring 2005). Her article isentitled "The Doris Duke Program inScope and Sequence." She is currentlypursuing a Ph.D. at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.

Julie Kang, Division doctoral student, wasawarded a travel grant by the UA Groupfor Early Modern Studies to facilitate hersummer travel to the ArchivesDeparternentales du Vaucluse in Avignon,France.

Kari McBride, Associate Professor ofWomen's Studies and associate faculty ofthe Division, has a new book out whichshe co-authored with Professor Meg LotaBrown entitled Women's Roles in theRenaissance (Greenwood Press).

Joshua Rosenthal, Division doctoralstudent, successfully defended hisdissertation this August on the family ofPhilippe Duplessis Mornay during theFrench wars of religion. He is teaching thissemester at the Center for ContinuingEducation at the University of SouthemMaine. He is teaching Latin and a coursehe devised entitled "God at War: A Historyof Religious Conflict."

Conferences/Publications

The Division sponsored a session entitled"Cultures of Literacy in the Reformation" atthis year's Sixteenth Century Studies

Conference in Atlanta. The session waschaired by Professor Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Director, and featured speakersJames Blakeley, Division doctoralstudent, on "Learned Priests, WiseMagistrates, and Clever Subjects: TheEducation of Children in Counter-Reformation Fribourg, Switzerland"; andRandolph C. Head, University ofCalifomia, Riverside, on "Knowing theLandfrieden: Texts, Practices, andCommunities in Post-ReformationSwitzerland" Professor Karant-Nunn gavethe second plenary address on "MartinLuther's Sense of Humor," and chaired asecond session on "Lay Biblical Exegesisand Theology in the Early Reformation."Other presenters at the conferenceincluded Division student JoshuaRosenthal; Division alumni ProfessorMichael Bruening, Professor PeterDykema, Professor John M. Frymire,Professor Brad Gregory, ProfessorSigrun Haude, Professor JonathanReid, and Professor Joel Van Amberg;and associate faculty Pia F. Cuneo,Associate Professor of Art History, andHelen Nader, Professor of History.

James Blakeley, was invited to participatein a conference in October titled "Sourcesof the Reformation: Correspondence ofWolfgang Capito and Fellow Reformers." Itwas sponsored by the Centre forReformation and Renaissance Studies atthe University of Toronto. He made apaleographic presentation.

David L. Graizbord, Assistant Professorof Judaic Studies and associate faculty ofthe Division, presented a paper entitled"From Christianity to Judaism and Back:Iberian Judeoconversos as CulturalCommuters" at the Western HumanitiesAlliance at the UA in October. He willpresent papers and/or appear on panels atfive professional events in the comingmonths. He has two articles forthcoming inthe Journal of Social History and theJournal of Early Modem History and athird article under review. Meanwhile, hehas completed a prospectus for hissecond book, tentatively titled Sephardim:Episodes in the History of a Judeo-IberianEthnicity in the Late Medieval and EarlyModem Centuries.

Professor Susan C. Karant-Nunn,Director, spoke locally on "Martin Luther'sSense of Humor" at Our Saviour'sLutheran Church on Reformation Sunday.She also served on the AmericanHistorical Association's J. FranklinJameson Prize Committee; the prize isawarded every five years for outstandingachievement in the editing of historicalsources.

Alumni

Professor Curtis Bostick, Southern UtahUniversity, was elected Chair of theDepartment of History and Sociology for a

three-year term.

Professor Michael Bruening, ConcordiaUniversity, Irvine, will have an articlepublished in the BibliotMqued'Humanisme et Renaissance entitled "Lanouvelle reformation de Lausanne': TheProposal by the Ministers of Lausanne onEcclesiastical Discipline (June 1558)."

Professor Michael Crawford, HistoryDepartment alumnus, has begun a one-year position in the History Department atthe University of the South in Sewanee,Tennessee.

Professor John Frymire received the2005 Carl S. Meyer Prize, awardedannually for the best paper delivered at theSixteenth Century Studies Conference bya scholar in graduate school or within fiveyears of eaming the Ph.D. The award-winning paper is entitled "Rites ofAppeasement: Suffering and the Defenseof Catholic Ritual in ReformationGermany." He spent May and June inGermany doinq research funded by theUniversity of Missouri Research Board.

Professor Brad Gregory, University ofNotre Dame, has received the first annualHiett Prize in the Humanities awarded bythe Dallas Institute of Humanities andCulture. The prize is awarded to someonewhose work in the humanities showsextraordinary promise and has asignificant public or applied component.

Professor Jonathan Reid, East CarolinaUniversity, was awarded an ECU ThomasHarriot College Arts and Sciences CollegeResearch Award to prepare hisdissertation on Marguerite of Navarre forpublication. In October he was invited tospeak in Rome at a conference comparingthe origins of the French and ItalianReformations.

Professor Joel Van Amberg, formerly anadjunct lecturer at the University ofTennessee, Knoxville, accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in theDepartment of History at TusculumUniversity in Greeneville, Tennessee.

Friends

Many thanks to Mrs. Mary Goodman,who honored Professor Susan Karant-Nunn with a ceramic leaf stepping stonebearing her name in the new UAWomen's Plaza of Honor.

Felicitous birthday greetings to Dr. MorrisMartin, longtime friend of the Division,who celebrated his 95th birthday onNovember 3. 0

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20TH ANNUAL TOWN & GOWNAndrew Greeley to speak at banquet

ather AndrewGreeley hasgraciously consentedto give the 20thannual Town and

Gown Lecture. The topic he haschosen is "The Mystery of African-American Evangelicals." OnFebruary 15,2006, the lecture willtake place under differentcircumstances than up till now andthan in the future. Father Greeleywill speak at a banquet designed toassist the Division in meeting thechallenge of an anonymousmatching gift of $300,000, whichexpires on December 31, 2006. Allfunds raised will go toward theendowment of the Heiko A.Oberman Chair in Late Medievaland Reformation History, together

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with the simultaneous transmittalof Oberman's personal researchcollection to the UA SpecialCollections Library.

Father Greeley celebrated the50th anniversary of his ordination,at St. Mary of the Lake Seminaryin Illinois, in 2004. He is aprofessor of sociology at the UAand Research Associate at theUniversity of Chicago. He hasachieved international celebritywith his more than 50 novels, 100works of nonfiction, countlessscholarly articles, and hisnewspaper op ed columns oncurrent events.SAVE THE DATE. The 20thAnnual Town & Gown Lectureand Banquetfeaturing FatherAndrew Greeley will take place at

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tireArizona Inn on February 15.Tire change in format this yearreflects efforts to achieve a$300,000 matching gift A portionof the individual ticket price willbe tax-deductible. Reserve ticketsby calling (520) 621-1284. 0

Obituary

Nancy O'Neill, Friend of the Divisionby George Rosenberg, Member, Board of Advisors

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ancy O'Neill, a. . longtime winter" ... ' r~sident of Tucson,

.:~ " died May 15 at her.' '. Ohio home.

Mrs. O'Neill was an ardent andgenerous supporter of numerousTucson organizations, ArizonaTheatre Company and St. GregoryCollege Preparatory School amongthem.

Her principal interests were withseveral UA programs, includingarchaeologist David Soren's"digs," the Rev. Dr. Father RobertA. Bums' religious studies, theHumanities Seminars program, ofwhich she was a foundingcontributor to its endowment insupport of excellence in teaching.

Perhaps her favorite program

was the UA Division for LateMedieval and ReformationStudies, which was established bythe late and world-renownedscholar, Professor Heiko A.Oberman. Mrs. O'Neill was notonly a major contributor butserved as a member of ProfessorOberman's Board of Advisors. Theboard is presently engaged inraising funds toward theacquisition of his vast libraryholdings as well as theestablishment of a chair honoringProfessor Oberman.

Professor Susan C. Karant-Nunn, who succeeded ProfessorOberman as director of theDivision, said that she and theDivision's students and staff were"deeply saddened" by the death of

Mrs. O'Neill. "She was more thansimply a benefactor, she wasamong the Division's dearestfriends," Professor Karant-Nunnsaid.

Nancy came first to Tucson withher husband, the late "Steve"O'Neill, who was the principalowner ofthe Cleveland Indiansbaseball team in the days when theteam held its spring training inTucson. When her husband diedin 1983, his widow, despite gettinglucrative offers, refused to sell toanyone who would move the teamfrom Cleveland. She sold the teamthree years later, to Richard andDavid Jacobs, who moved theclub's spring training programaway from Tucson to Florida. 0

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Division announces new associated faculty

McBride: Early modern England, genderby Mary Kovel, doctoral student

lI3Jt is my great pleasure to

• • 0 introduce Kari Boyd\.'. McBride, the Division's

. ..' newest associated faculty.. . (~: .Professor McBride brings a

new dimension to the Division withher degrees in British studies,history, and English literature. Sheincorporates an interdisciplinaryapproach to her research in Englishliterature in order to investigate thestructures of gender, race, class,and nationalism.

At the UA, Professor McBridewears many hats, which mostindividuals would find exhausting,but which she finds energizing. Sheis an associate professor in theWomen's Studies Department,where she teaches courses infeminist theorys and women inWestern culture, and serves asUndergraduate Director. She is the

Women's Roles in theRenaissance (2005) byMeg Lata Brown and KariBoyd McBride

director of the Group for EarlyModem Studies (GEMS), a UAgroup dedicated to the promotionof interdisciplinary studies. She hasparticipated in numerousconferences and contributed to thescholarship of early modemEngland through the publication ofmultiple book chapters, articles andencyclopedia entries. She wroteCountry House Discourse in EarlyModern England: A Cultural Studyof Landscape and Legitimacy(200 I), edited DomesticArrangements in Early ModernEngland (2002), and co-authoredwith Meg Lota Brown, a UAEnglish professor, the muchanticipated, and needed, Women:SRoles in the Renaissance (2005).

As the director of the ArizonaCenter for Medieval andRenaissance Studies' (ACMRS)

Study Abroad Program, she willspend six weeks at St. Catharine'sCollege, Cambridge, where shewill supervise Arizona students intheir study of medieval and earlymodem English history. Sherecently won a Mellon Fellowshipin order to complete research onher project on women and edu-cation in early modem England.

Professor McBride hopes that heraffiliation with the Division will"foster early modem scholarship"through the promotion ofinterdisciplinary studies. She states,"Our common goal is to insure thatearly modem scholarship continuesto thrive here, through the cont-inued hiring of stellar professors,who do work in the period, and theacquisition of monographs,manuscripts, and databases thatserve their research." 0

At the feet of visiting scholars

Charles ZikaUniversity of Melbourne, Australiaby Lizzy Ellis-Marino, doctoral student

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istinguished historian Charles\~.. Zika, a professor at the

. University of Melbourne,1) gave a lecture on October 26,

===='=- entitled "Witches and OtherStereotypes: Image-Making inEarly Modem Europe." Co-sponsored by the UA Medieval,Renaissance, and ReformationCommittee, the Group for EarlyModem Studies, and the EnglishDepartment, the talk was held in aconference room in the EnglishDepartment, which was filled tocapacity, with people standing inthe back and sitting in the aisles.Professor Zika's lecture discussedimages of the diabolic, particularly4

images connected with witches,and how they became a sort ofvisual shorthand for the devil andevil. He then showed thedissemination of these imagesthroughout Europe, whichmanifested themselves in anti-Catholic propaganda in Germany,illustrative woodcuts in editions offamous books, anti-Semiticpropaganda across Europe, andpaintings with clear politicalintentions.

While some of the imagesProfessor Zika used in his talkwere quite famous, a few camefrom unpublished archival sources.By using a diverse selection of

images,ProfessorZikaillum-inated a Charles Zika

pervasivevisual language, and gave a newdimension to some of the famousimages of witches he used. Earlymodem Europe was endowed witha rich language of images, many ofwhich have lost their meaning overtime. For students of the periodlike myself, lectures like ProfessorZika's are both fascinating andinvaluable for their illumination ofthis forgotten avenue ofcommunication. 0

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At the feet of visiting scholars

Carlos Eire, Yale Universityby Tod Meinke, master's student

[G] arlos Eire is theRiggs Professor of

/-, History and\..::.! Religious Studies at

Yale University,where he specializes in latemedieval and early modemEurope. In his public lecture thisNovember, entitled "HoveringSaints, Flying Witches: Writing aHistory of the Impossible," hedescribed his current research ascovering "from miracles to reallystrange miracles."

Although these miracles may notmake sense to many modempeople, they were understood asvery real events during thesixteenth century. Instead ofrationalizing or refuting purportedmiracles, Eire addresses the effectof belief in them. For example,Catholics promoted manifestationsof the miraculous as the product ofextreme piety, such as the manylevitations experienced by Saint

Teresa of Avila. Protestants,however, associated miraculousevents with "bad people" who hadgained their mysterious powersfrom the devil. Catholics andProtestants, therefore, came tointerpret miracles in completeopposition, even though bothreligions were believed to beginwith a miraculous event.

During the Division seminar,Professor Eire described tworeasons for his decision to studyhistory. One was the influence ofhis father, a reputable judge whoalso claimed to be the reincar-nation of Louis XVI. Perhaps thisquasi-royal heritage inspired hisresearch into the "impossible," butit nevertheless created a householdwhere the past was celebrated andthe present was a "comedown."Since childhood, Eire has beenobsessed with the notion that whiletime passes, space remains thesame, and "most of what happens

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in this worlddoes not leavea trace."

Eire,however, ismostfascinated bythe humandesire tocomprehendwhat lies beyond this world. In thatquest, religious studies allows himto explore the "relationshipbetween matter and the afterlife,"while history provides a source ofevents for that exploration. Bycombining religious studies withhistorical research, Professor Eirehas been able to address the historyof the impossible, and provide uswith a better understanding of whypeople sometimes behaved in amanner that does not make senseto modem readers. 0

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the Divisionbenefited from a Septemberreception they hosted to aid in theendowment of a chair in LateMedieval and ReformationHistory and the acquisition of theDivision's Founding Director,Heiko A. Oberman's personalresearch collection for the UALibrary. The event was hosted inthe library's original setting for afinal time as Mrs. Toetie Obermanwas moving from the Tucsonhome she shared with her husband Guests gather for the last time in Mrs. Toetie Oberman's home to view her late husband'sfor almost 20 years. 0 vast research library, including the rare sixteenth-century volumes pictured above.

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A Nice summer in the archivesby Julie Kang, doctoral student

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ummer is always exciting forus graduate students becausewe can leave course-workaside for a bit andconcentrate on our languages

or research interests. This past year,I think I won the unofficial contestfor best summer destinations whenI was able to tell my colleaguesthat I was headed to the Palace ofthe Popes in Avignon for archivalresearch and then to Nice for anintensive language program.

We picture the charms of theregion of Provence-Alpes-Coted'Azur from what we have seen inmovies or artwork, and we imaginethese areas from what we have readin novels. They please our senses:the smell of lavender flowers and

olive trees; the taste of a regionalrose wine; the awesome sight ofRoman ruins or the places thatinspired Van Gogh; and relaxationat the beaches along theMediterranean that include popularcelebrity cities such as Cannes orthe intriguing principality ofMonaco. I certainly enjoyedabsorbing the culture of the southwith its regional Provencal, Italian,and French influences during mytwo-month stay. The highlight ofmy trip, however, was my work inthe archives at the Departement deVaucluse.

Imagine walking up to a fortress-castle for work everyday! As anhistorian, I could not help butdaydream about the Avignon popeswho might have walked along thevery path I took during my lunchbreak, or the nuns who touched theletters and other documents J wasinterested in reading. Archivalresearch brought tears ofexcitement and intimidation.

Although I had French in theclassroom, coursework did notadequately prepare me for this tripto France. The day after [ arrived, Iattended a soiree for theparticipants and attendees of theconference on the principality ofOrange. The next day, I attendedthe conference and tried to keep upwith the wonderful papers read inacademic French. Thus, I was

completely immersed in Frenchwhile still experiencing bouts ofjetlag. The organizer of theconference, Francoise Moreil of theUniversity of Avignon, was alsomy advisor abroad. The next week,she met me at the archive and gaveme invaluable advice: how to makesense of the archive catalogs, howto order material, and strategies oftaking notes. Like ProfessorMoreil, the archivists and theirassistants treated this first-timereader with much patience. I alsohad the pleasure of meeting earlymodem French historian AmandaEurich and American Fulbrightscholar Elizabeth Harden, both ofwhom offered helpful advice andencouraged me as they worked ontheir respective projects. For threeweeks, I attempted to decipher thesixteenth- and seventeenth-centurypaleography that I encountered. Itwas hard to tell whether I wassucceeding. Thus, I was relieved tohear Professor Moreil's commentsto the archivist after reviewing mytranscriptions: "Elle a fait desprogres!"

I would like to thank the Divisionfor Late Medieval and ReformationStudies, the Department of History,and the Group for Early ModemStudies for providing financialassistance and helping make thiswonderful trip possible. I)

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Quest to conquer Germanby Samantha Kuhn, doctoral student

.....•••;:;:;;;;;;;;;;:;;;:;;:;.......!1en[ stepped offthe plane inGermany for thevery first time inJune, little did I

know what Germanic pleasures Iwould encounter that summer.Before my German immersionclasses began at the GoetheInstitute in Mannheim, I spent aleisurely four days wandering thestreets of nearby Heidelberg,preparing myselffor the rigors ofan intensive eight-week journeythat would be the start of my questto conquer the German language.Picturesque Heidelberg, the homeof the world-famous University ofHeidelberg, is steeped in historyand academia Overlooking thesmall town with its cobblestonestreets and numerous churches arethe ruins of Heidelberg castlewhich in its glory days served asthe home of the Prince Electors ofthe Rhenish Palatinate. Included inmy visit was a trip to thelabyrinthine museum of thePalatinate, a hike on thePhilosophers' Way (where the likesof Goethe and Schiller used to takewalks), and a visit to the brightlygraffitied students' prison, whereup until the early twentieth centurystudents at the University werelocked up for committing variousyouthful hijinks.

When my time in Heidelbergcame to an end, I made my way tothe industrial town of Mannheim,twenty minutes away. After thebeauty of Heidelberg, which hadremained untouched by thebombings of World War II, thegrittiness ofMannheim, which hadbeen almost completely destroyed,provided me with quite a differentpicture of industrial post-warGermany. Though Mannheimlacked certain charms, unlikeHeidelberg it also lacked citizens

Heidelberg Castle overlooking the banks of the Neckar River in Heidelberg, Germany

who spoke fluent English, a boonfor one who wished to beimmersed in German.

At the Goethe Institute on theoutskirts of Mannheim, I spent fivehours a day, five days a week, inclass diligently studying theGerman language. My instructor,the stem Jutta, was not allowed tospeak to us in any language saveGerman from day one. Joining mein my studies were students fromThailand, India. Korea. Turkey,Japan, China. Mexico-and thatwas just in my class alone. MyDeustch sprechen partner, thedelightful Bora. hailed from faraway Seoul and could speak noEnglish (and I'm afraid my Koreanis nonexistent). We developed ourown media of hand gestures,drawn pictures, and broken, badly-pronounced German. As thesummer progressed ourconversations improved more andmore, until finally we could holdactual conversations that wentfurther than "Wie geht's?" ("Howare you?") I found that I couldnow read advertisements onbuildings, understand randomsnatches of conversation on the S-Bahn, and make small talk with

the locals at the neighborhood bar,the Cat Weazel.

After working hard at learningthe language all week long, wespent the weekends on tripsoutside of Mannheim to put intopractice our new skills.Destinations such as Berlin,Munich, Vienna. Salzburg-and ofcourse repeated returns toHeidelberg-proved to beinteresting side trips that providedthe culture and history that Iyearned to know. I learned moreGerman history on these weekendexcursions than I had ever studiedin my classes in the U.S. Myphysically being there madeevents, persons, and places allcome together in ways that bookscannot achieve. The differentcultures and traditions that madeup the Holy Roman Empire stillpersist today, constantly remindingone of the divided histories of theGermanic lands. When I leftTucson for the summer, I had onlya vague idea of Germany, mixedwith disparate knowledgeconcerning specific events. Mytraipsing from place to place madeGermany more alive, more real tome then before. 0

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UA Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies

Alumni AppointmentsRobert J. Bast (1993)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Curtis V. Bostick (1993)Southern Utah University

Michael Bruening (2002)Concordia University, Irvine

Robert Christman (2004)Luther College, Iowa

Victoria Christman (2005)Luther College, Iowa

Peter Dykema (1998)Arkansas Tech University

John Frymire (2001)University of Missouri, Columbia

Andrew C. Gow (1993)University of Alberta. Edmonton

Brad S. Gregory(MA 1989; Ph.D. Princeton 1996)University of Notre Dame

Sigrun Haude (1993)University of Cincinnati

Nicole Kuropka (MA 1997)Vicar, Evangelical Church

of the Rhineland

Marjory E. Lange(1993, English major, History minor)Western Oregon University

Scott M. Manetsch (1997)Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Michael Milway (1997)Wellesley College

Jonathan Reid (2001)East Carolina University

Joshua Rosenthal (2005)University of Southern Maine

Eric Leland Saak (1993)Indiana University,

Purdue University, Indianapolis

J. Jeffery Tyler (1995)Hope College, Michigan

Joel Van Amberg (2004)Tusculum University

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