Francisco Prado Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), The Smiles of the Portal of Glory during Wartime: Science and the Defense of Art in the Axis Santiago-Madrid-Harvard in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century... and Today.

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), ...

Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), Devotion and Invention in a Mass of St. Gregory by the Master of the Houghton Miniatures (a.k.a. Hugo van der Goes?). A lecture accompanying the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections.

The first of two sessions with Katharine Park (History of Science) and Ahmed Ragab (HDS), who will discuss draft chapters of their book in progress, A History of Medieval Science: Knowledge, Objects, and Communities in Europe and the Islamicate World, intended as a survey and potential text book that rewrites the history of medieval science by insisting on the contemporaneity and mutual engagement of Latin and Arabic science. To receive copies of the chapters, please contact Ardeta Gjikola or...