Committee on Medieval Studies

Paul Russell (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Reading Greek (Out Loud) in Medieval Wales (and/or Maybe Ireland) . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served...

Matthew Gabriele (Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), Apocalyptic Certitude after the First Crusade . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on...

Finlay Darlington-Bell (Romance Languages and Literatures), Read My Desire: Authorial Editions and the Question of Selfhood in Medieval Italy. The emergence of the libri d'autore (authorial editions of vernacular texts) marks a pivotal moment in...

Pádraic Moran (University of Galway), Unity in Diversity? Connecting Threads in a Ninth-Century Scholar's Notebook (the Reichenauer Schulheft ). Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.

Joanna Story (University of Leicester), Manuscripts and Molecules: A New Project to Analyze the Parchments of the Earliest English and Irish Books, ca. 600–900 C.E, with comments by Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) and Christina Warriner (Harvard...

Laury Sarti (University of Bonn), The Frankish Kingdom and the Eastern Empire: Rethinking Their Interconnections from a Medieval Perspective. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at...

Matilda Bruckner (Boston College) discusses her new book Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Medieval French Literature: Inscribing Biblical Encounters in the Vernacular (Boydell & Brewer, 2025) with Irit Kleiman (Boston University). Reception to follow. Just as...

Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Agents of Peace, Ministers of the Holy: Soldiers as Ritual Experts in the Early Medieval Middle East . Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. How do soldiers...

Translating the Middle Ages: The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library at Fifteen . A roundtable chaired by DOML General Editor Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), featuring Nicole Eddy (Managing Editor, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library ), Emily Francomano...

The Committee on Medieval Studies invites medievalists from Harvard and the Boston area for a festive kickoff to 2026, featuring delicious food, classy libations, and stimulating conversation! Afterwards, be sure to join us in the Thompson Room for the...