Committee on Medieval Studies

A lecture by Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study; co-sponsored with the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Société des Bollandistes, and the Clough School of Theology at Boston College. Free and open to the public; to join the...

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 6 OCTOBER Bárbara Arango Serrano (Universidad Computense de Madrid; Visiting Doctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies), “ My Wound Precedes Me”: Mystical Bodies and Apophatic Hypertrophy . Co-sponsored by the Standing...

Hwaet! Join us, graduate pursuers of knowledge medieval, for food and drink and mutual support. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.

Pamela Klasova (The University of Chicago), The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, 694-714 . Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern...

Dolan Wells Gallagher (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Buried in the Narrative: Women in the Early Irish Legal Imaginary.

Krisztina Ilko (Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums), Bringing Medieval Lordship into Play: The Symbolic and Material Values of Chess Sets as Votive Offerings, c. 900–1350 . Co-sponsored by the Committee...

Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto), High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo . Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Lori Bondioli (Department of History), The Case for a Medieval Islamic Commercial Revolution . Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served; please RSVP here by Friday, 16 October.

Giorgio Basciu (University of Stockholm; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Poetic Pairings across the North Sea . Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served; please RSVP here by Friday, 6 November.

Jordan Vanderpool (Romance Languages and Literatures), New Manuscript Evidence Related to Gonzalo de Berceo's Source for His Vida de Santa Oria.