History Department Book Symposia Series: On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Bruce Venarde's Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict.

If the past is a foreign country, medieval Europe is for most of us another planet altogether. Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict are attempts to open up a world that is very different from ours but explicable on its own terms. They reflect Bruce Venarde’s commitment to making medieval European history and culture available to non-specialists, to deep and close reading of medieval Latin and other texts, and to collaborative work.