Medieval Studies @ Harvard
Upcoming Medieval Studies Committee Events
Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop
Jordan Vanderpool (Romance Languages and Literatures), New Manuscript Evidence Related to Gonzalo de Berceo's Source for His Vida de Santa Oria.
MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations
Bárbara Arango Serrano (Universidad Computense de Madrid; Visiting Doctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies), “My Wound Precedes Me”: Mystical Bodies and Apophatic Hypertrophy. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served...
Bibendum/Gebeorscip
Hwaet! Join us, graduate pursuers of knowledge medieval, for food and drink and mutual support. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
Jack Tannous (Princeton University), The End of Prophecy and the Seal of the Prophets. Co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
Jack Tannous (Princeton University), From Syriac to Arabic: The Rise of Arabic as a Christian Language. Co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of...
Medieval Studies-Art History joint lecture
Krisztina Ilko (Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums), Bringing Medieval Lordship into Play: The Symbolic and Material Values of Chess Sets as Votive Offerings, c. 900–1350. Co-sponsored by the Committee...
News
Digging for answers
A recent issue of the Harvard Gazette featured a profile of Anthropology graduate student Andrew Bair, discussing his research and the challenge it poses to long-established chronologies of rural settlement in medieval Ireland.
Harvard Alum Publications Receive Medieval Academy Awards
Travis Zadeh (Ph.D. '07) and Rowan Dorin (Ph.D. '15) have been honored with two of the Medieval Academy of America's most prestigious book prizes.
New issue of Sententiae now available!
Issue 9 (Fall 2025) of Harvard's undergraduate Medieval Studies journal Sententiae, featuring articles by Daniel Bethke (Tufts University), Conger Wang (University of Edinburgh), Kaitlyn Stanton (RISD), and Keaton Flynn (UCLA) now is available on the...