Off Campus

Sara McDougall (John Jay College, CUNY) discusses her new book Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor (Princeton University Press, 2026) with Irit Kleiman (Boston University). For more information, click here.

Daniel L. Smail (Harvard University), Practices of Slavery in Mediterranean Europe, 1250-1500.

Gregory T. Doolan (The Catholic University of America), Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Angels . Free and open to the public.

A three-day interdisciplinary symposium organized by Irit Kleiman (Boston University), featuring presentations by Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech), Jennifer Jahner (CalTech), Jonathan Conant (Brown University), April Hughes (Boston University), James Hill...

In honor of the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, two distinguished choirs devoted to their rich traditions of sacred music—the Holy Cross St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir, directed by Fr. Romanoss Karanos, and the St...

Alexandra Montero Peters (Northwestern University), Race, Chess, and Thirteenth-Century Court Culture in the Western Mediterranean. The art of the thirteeth-century Book of Games (Libro del axedrez, dados e tablas ) reveals visions of a diverse...

In this program, the renowned Boston Camerata explores age-old themes of justice and corruption as told through ancient minstrel songs, featuring satirical works from medieval France, Provence, and Germany that provide a sharply-etched and astonishingly...

Authors Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry discuss their new book Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe (HarperCollins, 2024). Open to the public; please click here to register.

A day-long colloquium in honor of William S. Monroe, curator emeritus of manuscripts and early printed books at Brown University Library, featuring presentations by Jonathan Conant, Susan Harvey, Joseph Pucci, Lisa Fagin Davis, Andrew Laird, and Evelyn...

Megan Cook (Colby College), Dirtbag Medievalism or, Medievalism Without the Middle Ages. This paper asks how the concept of “the medieval” functions differently than other historical periods by focusing on “minor medievalisms”—those allusions to and...