Whether scholars are annotating restored images of medieval maps or plotting data on modern cartographic platforms, the challenges they face in representing medieval spatial data remain largely unanswered. In this virtual symposium, participants will discuss what has already been accomplished with online medieval maps and mapping projects, and identify the larger questions concerning this genre of digital scholarship. Part I (Digital Mapping and Medieval Studies: Approaches), moderated by cartographic historian... Read more about Quo Vadis: Digital Mapping and Medieval Studies Today

Author Alfred Thomas, Professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, discusses his new book Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 with ... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Representative Bodies: Mass Production and the Parliamentary Manuscript in Late Medieval England. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Technologies of Reproduction and Representation. This workshop will focus on medieval manuscripts and early print from northern Europe as technologies of reproduction and representation, considering: representations of history and the Christian religion; representative politics; and modern representations of medieval books themselves through facsimile reproduction. Sponsored... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Technologies of Reproduction and Representation. This workshop will focus on medieval manuscripts and early print from northern Europe as technologies of reproduction and representation, considering: representations of history and the Christian religion; representative politics; and modern representations of medieval books themselves through facsimile reproduction. Sponsored... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History