WATERLOO — Dr. Bryan Gillingham, a medieval musicologist from Carleton University, will deliver a special lecture at Laurier as this year’s Distinguished Visiting Speaker in Medieval Studies.

Dr. Gillingham will speak on “Cluniac Paradoxes: Sacred and Secular in the Ecclesia” this Friday, March 27, in the Bricker Academic Building, Room 101, starting at 1:30 p.m. All students, staff and faculty are welcome.
The event is co-sponsored by Laurier’s Medieval Studies program, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Music and the Office of the Vice President: Academic.

“Dr. Gillingham is a major figure in his field and it is especially appropriate that we have an eminent scholar of medieval music as our visiting speaker this year because last year the Laurier library acquired a Latin hymnal as its first medieval manuscript,” said Dr. Chris Nighman, co-ordinator of Laurier’s Medieval Studies program. “Moreover, in the past the speakers in this series have been historians and literary scholars; the Faculty of Music, which includes two medieval musicologists — Dr. Alma Santosuosso and Dr. Kirsten Yri — is a major partner in the Laurier Medieval Studies program and that fact is duly acknowledged by our selection this year of Dr. Gillingham as our fourth annual Distinguished Visiting Speaker.”