Alumni & Friends Travel

Honors Passport: Pilgrimage
for Alumni & Friends
May 13-23, 2019

Study abroad doesn't have to stop after you graduate!

The Honors College is hosting an international adventure for alumni and friends. In May 2019, we shall journey together along the storied Chemin Saint Jacques, the French route of the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail launched in the 10th century and continuing on to this day. Our pilgrimage will be led by a triumvirate of specialists: Lynda Coon, Honors College dean and church historian, John Treat, an expert in medieval and modern spiritualities, and Lynn Jacobs, a distinguished professor of medieval art history.

Arkansas pilgrims will visit a variety of sites related to pilgrimage and medieval religion, ranging from the austerity of Cistercian cloisters to the armor-like exteriors of fortress-churches, to masterworks of Romanesque sculpture. Off the Camino path, we shall encounter environmental preserves, 13th-century mercantile towns, and Roman antiquities. As we move from Arles to Toulouse, we'll also enjoy the delicious cuisines of France in all their local splendor, luxuriate in regional wines, and savor the bustle of historic squares and piazzas.

Cost: $4,995 (Includes airfare from Fayetteville, lodging, entry tickets, tips and fees, and selected meals)
Come Camino with us!  For more information, contact Lynda Coon (llcoon@uark.edu).

About your professors:

Honors College Dean Lynda Coon ’s research focuses on the history of Christianity from circa 300-900. Her first book, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, explored the sacred biographies of holy women in late antiquity. Her second book, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West, focused on the ritual, spatial and gendered worlds of monks in the Carolingian period (ca. 750-987). She is currently researching a book on imagining Jesus in the Dark Ages. She is a member of the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy and has received three top teaching honors at the university: the Fulbright College Master Teacher Award in 1998, the Charles and Nadine Baum University of Arkansas Teaching Award in 2000, and the University of Arkansas Honors College Distinguished Faculty Award in 2014. In 1995  Coon helped to develop the Honors Humanities Project (H2P), an interdisplinary four-semester seuqnce of courses taught by teams of top professors. As dean of the Honors College, she has launched a series of innovative Signature Seminars, Retro Readings and Forums designed to spark discussion and connections between honors students and university and community leaders.

 

Lynn F. Jacobs, distinguished professor of art history, is a specialist in the art of Northern Europe in the fourteenth through mid-sixteenth centuries. She has published three books -- one on Netherlandish carved altarpieces, another on Netherlandish painted triptychs, and one on liminality in Netherlandish art. In addition, she has written numerous articles on Netherlandish painting, sculpture and manuscript illumination, and is particularly well known for her research on the art of Hieronymus Bosch. She has received research grants from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; in 1990 she was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, presented by the College Art Association for an especially distinguished article published in The Art Bulletin. Currently she is engaged in writing a book on German fifteenth-century triptychs, which is under contract with Amsterdam University Press.