Presented by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the Centre for Medieval Literature (U of York and U of Southern Denmark), the Penn School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, French and Francophone Studies, the Department of English, Italian Studies, and Comparative Literature

This symposium commemorates the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, the author of the Golden Bull, the “second Constantine,” the “Last Emperor,” the proponent of a Church Union, the founder of the first university in Central and Eastern Europe, a patron of all humanist scholars and artists, and “the father of the Czech nation.” The symposium brings together an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars, who examine a number of aspects of Charles’s reign and ponder their implications for past and present (see attached program: Charles_IV_symposium.pdf).

The symposium is free and open to the public. For more info and to register please go to:

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/charles_iv.html