Arafat Razzaque (History/Middle Eastern Studies), Speaking of Private Life in Medieval Baghdad.

Juliette Calvarin (Art History), Pregnancy and the Priesthood: A Chasuble from Prague.

NB. The chasuble in question will be on view at the Harvard Art Museum 4th floor study room from 4-5 PM on Monday, Feb. 13. Please feel free stop by and see it before Juliette's talk.

Elena Boeck (Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks), Rome, Constantinople, Troy: Triangulating Past and Present in the Fourteenth Century.

Julian Weiss (King's College London), In the Tracks of Josephus: Reading Jewish History and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1492-1687. Co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Coffee and tea will be served before the lecture.

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Stephen White (History), Executions of Traitors in England, 1196-1330: A New Narrative? Please RSVP by Thursday, 6 April to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Shane Bobrycki (Program in Economics, History, and Politics), Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville. Please RSVP by Thursday, 23 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Brian FitzGerald (History and Literature), The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History. Please RSVP by Thursday, 2 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Justine Landau (NELC), A Good Poet, a Dead Poet? Untimeliness and Literary Assessment in Medieval Iran. Please RSVP by Thursday, 9 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Joseph Nagy (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Medieval Celtic Pigs and Pork. Please RSVP by Thursday, 2 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Breaking the Mold: Metal as Material, Medium, and Message in the Middle Ages, featuring a lecture on Tuesday, 28 March by Professor Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center) and...

Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts. Co-sponsored by the MHC History of the Book Seminar.

Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University), Vision, Space, and Memory in Old Norse Literature.

Michael Barry (Princeton University), The Persian and Afghan Romance of Alexander the Great, Part III: Alexander, God and Mortal. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Fund, and the Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies.

Bernhard Jussen (University of Frankfurt), From Marcus Aurelius' Horse to the Sexuality of Christ: Toward the Reconfiguration of European Historical Macronarratives.

Dimiter Angelov (History), Native or Western? New Evidence on Ordeals in Byzantium. Please RSVP by Monday, 28 November to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu)