Committee on Medieval Studies

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...

Join us as we welcome new graduate student medievalists to our community!

Emily Rose (Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies): The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law.

The Fall seating of the Medieval Studies secondary field Latin exam. Use of one dictionary is allowed. To register for the exam, please contact Sean Gilsdorf. For more information, including sample exam texts, please visit the "Graduate Program" page of...

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Medieval Legal History and the Problem of Sources. A panel discussion on what it means to study ‘medieval law’ as a secular and religious phenomenon, what counts as a 'legal document', and how apparently 'non-legal...

Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College), Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium.

Asa Eger (University of North Carolina Greensboro), The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.

Matilda Bruckner (Boston College), The Deacon and the Devil and the Jew: Gautier de Coincy and Rutebeuf Take Turns on the Legend of Theophilus.

Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), Shared Shrines, Muslim-Christian Trust and Pre-Modern Mediterranean Sailors' Culture on the Island of Lampedusa. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Graduate Workshop.

A symposium in memory of the life and work of Shahab Ahmed, featuring presentations by Michael Cook, Noah Feldman, Cemal Kafadar, Gülru Necipoğlu, Parimal Patil, and Nicholas Watson. Sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra...