Alya Karame (AKPIA Fellow; Orient-Institut Beirut and Collège de France), The Sulayhid Qur’an: Stories of Connections and Belonging of a Short-Lived Dynasty. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, 26 Trowbridge Street
Slavery in Later Medieval Mediterranean Europe, featuring presentations by Prof. Daniel Smail (History, Harvard University) and Dr. Angela Zhang (History, Harvard University). Reception to follow.
Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (University of Cambridge), Decoding Irish Arthuriana: The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Medieval Ireland. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), Sixteen Showings: The Search for an Intermediate Version of Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love and Its Implications.
Nasrin Askari (University of Birmingham), An Intimate Companion from a Twelfth-Century Royal Court of Azerbaijan: The Mūnis-nāma and Its Audience. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History
Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History