A symposium on Eastern European identity and biography in the Middle Ages, with contributions by Isaiah Gruber (Hebrew University), Jakub Kabala (Davidson College), Eve Levin (University of Kansas), Timothy May (University of North Georgia), Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin), Heidi Sherman (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), Oleksii Tolochko (Ukrainian National Academy of Science), and Lisa Wolverton (University of Oregon). Sponsored by The Committee on Medieval Studies, the Davis Center for Russian Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Harvard Early Slavists...

The Technique and Trade of Glass in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven). This workshop is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. Space in the...

Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven), Making Magical Glass: From the Ancient to the Medieval World. This lecture is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.

Gary Vikan (Carleton College), The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. The lecture will explore the history and character of Ethiopian Christian art—icons, manuscripts, and crosses—from its first tentative appearance on fourth-century coinage to the eighteenth century, drawing heavily on objects in the Walters Art Museum collection in Baltimore, which is the finest of its kind outside of Ethiopia, but also addressing other works, including the great “Holy Land” architectural complex at Lalibela. This lecture is part of the 2015-2016 series "Reading Between Word and Image in Medieval Europe,...