Medieval Studies @ Harvard

Upcoming Medieval Studies Committee Events

MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

November 10, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room)

Giorgio Basciu (University of Stockholm; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Poetic Pairings across the North Sea. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. 

Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

November 16, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EST
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Houghton Library, the Edison and Newman Room

Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Materiality of the ‘Plutarchan Book'. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and...

Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

November 19, 2026
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10:30AM - 12:30PM EST

Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Typology of the Ancient Book: Papyrological Evidence from Houghton Library. Co-sponsored by...

Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

November 19, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST

Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Typology of the Ancient Book: Papyrological Evidence from Houghton Library. Co-sponsored by...

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.

Andrew Bair photo

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...

Cover image from 2025 issue of journal Sententiae