Emily Rose (Medieval Studies), Cutting Edge: The Changing Imagery of Ritual Murder. Please RSVP by Monday, 24 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

William Granara (NELC), Reading Arabic Panegyrics to Roger II: Between Chaos and Seduction. Please RSVP by Monday, 3 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Virginie Greene (Romance Languages) and Sean Gilsdorf (Medieval Studies), Colloquamur igitur! Please RSVP by Monday, 19 September to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Blurred Boundaries: Defining the "East" in Medieval Studies, a panel discussion with Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Michael Penn (Stanford University), John Zaleski (Harvard University), and Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School). Preceded by the Spring welcome reception of the Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Liam Anton Brannelly (Celtic), "A chruth sídhe": Beauty and the Male Body in Medieval Irish Literature.

Eric Nemarich (Harvard University), Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi: William of Auvergne on Gothic polyphony.

Susan Einbinder (University of Connecticut), Bone, Stone and Text: Commemoration of the Black Death among Iberian Jews. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Jessica Streit (The College of Charleston), The Nature of Almohad Architectural Ornament. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

A three-day symposium accompanying the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, hosted by Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art (Thursday, 3 November), the ...

The first exhibition to showcase highlights of medieval and Renaissance illumination in the Boston area, hosted at Harvard's Houghton Library ("Manuscripts for Church and Cloister"), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ("Italian Renaissance Books"), and Boston College's...

Join us as we welcome new graduate student medievalists to our community! 

Emily Rose (Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies): The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law. 

The Fall seating of the Medieval Studies secondary field Latin exam. Use of one dictionary is allowed. To register for the exam, please contact Sean Gilsdorf. For more information, including sample exam texts, please visit the "Graduate Program" page of the Medieval Studies website.

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Medieval Legal History and the Problem of Sources. A panel discussion on what it means to study ‘medieval law’ as a secular and religious phenomenon, what counts as a 'legal document', and how apparently 'non-legal' sources can deepen our understanding of medieval legal thought and practice. Featuring Piotr Górecki (University of California Riverside), ...

Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College), Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium.