Committee on Medieval Studies

Please join the Medieval Graduate Interdiscplinary Workshop and the Medieval/Early Modern History Workshop for their inaugural event of the year, featuring Nicholas Thyr (Celtic Languages and Literatures) , Towards a Relative Chronology of Medieval Irish...

Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register. No...

Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register. No...

Elva Johnston (University College Dublin), The Epigraphic Habit in Late Antique Ireland. Co-sponsored with the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures. It is now over forty years since Ramsay McMullen published his famous and ground-breaking...

Matthew Aiello (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Crime of Wulf and Eadwacer. Lunch will be served; please RSVP by Thursday 19 October to Lydia Shahan.

Laura Morreale (Medieval Studies Visiting Scholar), The Antiquarian's Library. Lunch will be served; please RSVP to Lydia Shahan by Thursday, 9 November.

Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading), Landscapes of (Re)conquest: Archaeologies of Frontier Societies in Medieval Iberia. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Standing Committee on Archeology.

Join us for the Fall Semester Welcome Reception of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, featuring food, drink, and lively conversation, as well as delightful intellectual amuse-bouches from Brian FitzGerald (Medieval Studies and Religion), Miriam...

Anna Wilson (Harvard University Department of English), No, Seriously, I Adore Him: Gendered Reading and Queer Affects in Cicero Fandom. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Please RSVP by...

Miriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis. Lunch will be provided; please RSVP by Thursday 5 October to Lydia Shahan (lydiashahan@g.harvard.edu)