Darwin College, located near the center of the city of Cambridge and a brief walk from the Sidgwick Arts site which houses the faculties of Religion, Modern Languages, English, History, and Anthropology, was founded in 1964 as the first college of the University devoted exclusively to graduate students.  The college has at any one time over 400 graduate students from 50 countries and 45 professorial and official Fellows.  It is, thus, an ideal location for a Summer Seminar because of its ongoing intellectual environment.  Beyond this fact, however, Cambridge also suggests itself as the location for a seminar devoted to the sins in the Middle Ages because of the ready accessibility of research tools that will play an immediate role in the participants' study.  The manuscript facilities in Cambridge contain more than ample primary sources to serve as the focus for the participants' research, whether they are interested in pictorial representations of the sins, Latin or vernacular texts on individual sins, etc. 

1. Residence, Computer Access

Darwin College (see link below) has once again reserved The Malting House, a converted Victorian-era oast house, along with other rooms normally occupied by students on its grounds, for the use of the seminar participants from July 16^th through August 19^th, 2006.  The rooms in the college do not have en-suite facilities, but are comfortably fitted and well cared for.  Internet connections are available to the participants in the Darwin College library, as well as in the Cambridge University Library.  The college serves lunch and supper five days per week in an atmosphere that has traditionally characterized life at the University of Cambridge, but The Malting House is also equipped with self-catering facilities.  A full array of restaurants and pubs is available across the road from The Malting House and in the city center.

2. Library Facilities

The administrative assistant for the seminar at Darwin College will help register participants with the university so they will have privileges at the college and faculty libraries associated with the University of Cambridge and at the University Library, one of the finest open-stacks libraries in the world.  The participants will be especially encouraged to become familiar with the University Library's special collections rooms for manuscripts and early printed books (recently renovated).  The participants will be able to reserve up to four books at a time for use in the library, but library rules do not allow them borrowing privileges.