Lauren Jacobi (MIT): Charitable Banking and the Transcendental Economy in Italy, ca. 1450-1600.

Giovanni Braico (New York University), Re-constructing Demonic Anatomies: The Demons of Chantilly, MS 597.

Matthew Collins (Harvard University), Readership In and Through Commedia Illustrations.

Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown University), From Unholy Racket to Heavenly Polyphony: The Musical Journey of Dante's Commedia.

Todd Boli (Independent Scholar), Dante’s Comedy: How to End It?

Christina Purdy Moudarres (Yale University), The Face that Most Resembles Christ: The Matter of Motherhood for Dante's Holy Family.

Amy Vines (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Fabricated Shame: The Loss of Honor as Productive in Medieval Romance.

Medieval Women and Their Objects: A Series of Microtalks Celebrating the Scholarship of Carolyn P. Collette. Speakers will include Jenny Adams, Nancy Bradbury, Howell Chickering, Michael Davis, Nadia Margolis, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.

Anne-Marie Eze (Curator, Beyond Words exhibition), A Choice of Books: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Library. Advance registration required; for more information, click here.

Roger Wieck, Medieval Bestseller: The Book of Hours. 

The book of hours, an illustrated prayer book, was popular with lay men and women of the late medieval/early Renaissance period for over 300 years. Why? Wieck’s lecture, illustrated with slides, will answer this question by exploring the texts and images to be found within their pages. The discussion will also explore this era’s veneration of the Virgin Mary and obsession with death. 
... Read more about Beyond Words Lecture

Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Scattered Leaves: Digitally Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal. A lecture accompanying the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections.

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.

A three-day symposium accompanying the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, hosted by Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art (Thursday, 3 November), the ...

The first exhibition to showcase highlights of medieval and Renaissance illumination in the Boston area, hosted at Harvard's Houghton Library ("Manuscripts for Church and Cloister"), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ("Italian Renaissance Books"), and Boston College's...

Lives and Afterlives in the Middle Ages, the 2016 meeting of the New England Medieval Conference, with keynote address by Paul Freedman (Yale University). Sponsored by Dartmouth College. For a complete program and registration information, please visit the New England Medieval Conference website.