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Language Reading Groups

The Marco Institute hosts a number of language reading groups for faculty and students. The Latin Sight-Reading Group is the most regularly occurring of these groups, but members of the Marco community are encouraged to create new groups as they wish. Such impromptu groups in the past have included languages like Old French and Old Scots.

Medieval Latin Sight-Reading GroupA group of people talking around a table

The Medieval Latin Sight-Reading Group meets weekly on Zoom. The group reads a wide variety of texts, including treatises, sermons, saints’ lives, poetry, and charters, from late antiquity through the Renaissance. Participants are invited to bring in texts that they are working on or that just interest them.

Graduate students and faculty of all skill levels are welcome to participate.

For more information, contact Dr. Caitlin Branum Thrash or email marco@utk.edu.

Medieval Latin Paleography Group

It is a great pleasure to announce that a group of Marco faculty and graduate students will meet over the course of spring 2024 to read medieval Latin manuscripts. We will gather at an undisclosed campus location on alternate Fridays at 1pm, beginning 9 February 2024.
 
Our motto is scientiae gaudiique lux coruscet and you are welcome to take part. We ask only that those who elect to join us possess some familiarity with medieval Latin and a willingness to prepare for meetings.
 
Please contact the organizer, Dr. Charles Sanft (csanft@utk.edu), if you have questions, comments, and/or the desire to participate.
 

Past Reading Groups:

Past medieval language sight-reading groups have included:

  • Medieval Occitan
  • Old English
  • Middle Scots
  • Old French
  • Old Norse