Slow Catastrophe, the 2015 meeting of the New England Medieval Conference, with keynote addresses by Michael McCormick (Harvard University) and Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode Island). Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies; the Northeastern University Department of English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Humanities Center, and Environmental Studies Program; the Boston University Center for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Program in Medieval Studies; and the University of Massachusetts Boston Department of English. For complete...

John Zaleski (Committee on the Study of Religion), "There is No Monasticism in Islam”: The Place of Rahbaniyyah and Celibacy in Ninth-Century Baghdadi Sufism.

Roger Stalley (Trinity College Dublin), The Book of Kells: Art and History in Medieval Europe.

Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University), Jewish Thinking about Religion in the Medieval Mediterranean.