Tech Gets Medieval Fall 2012 Symposium now Viewable
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Tech Gets Medieval Fall 2012 Symposium now Viewable


In the fall semester of 2012, Brittain fellow Dr. Kellie Meyer and colleagues from different areas of specialty at Georgia Tech organized a symposium, Tech Gets Medieval: How Medieval Technology Can Teach the Past.

The complete symposium is now available at Georgia Tech's SmarTech repository: https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/46004/browse?type=title

Here is a list of the presenters and their paper titles:

Opening Remarks: Burnett, Rebecca;  Meyer, Kellie;  Utz, Richard
   
The Afterlives of Gawain: Illustration as Annotation in the Cotton Nero Ax Manuscript: Haught, Leah
   
Biology and Germ Warfare: Spencer, Chrissy
   
Blacksmithing and Timber-Framed Houses: Pedagogy of Risk: Crawford, T. Hugh
   
Medieval Construction ? Foundation of Today's Industry: Bowen, Brian
   
Neo-Medieval Fantasy in Video Games: Pearce, Celia
   
Tried and True Methods: Madej, Krystina
   
Your Mission is to Rescue Lorenzo di Medici: A Demonstration of the Pedagogical Potentials of Using Assassin's Creed II for Teaching the Italian Renaissance: Madden, Amanda




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