Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University), Romancing the Rose: Materiality and Meanings in that Singular Circular Window. Reception to follow. This lecture is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the...

Nils Bock (Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center), George Washington’s English Herald and the Medieval Origins of the American Flag.

Gemma Pellissa (Visiting Fellow, Classics), A Medieval Catalan Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Its Sources.

Featuring Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School), Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century: From Law to Myth? and Stephen White (Emory University and Harvard University), The Interpretation of Magna Carta in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. Moderated by Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School). Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Harvard Law School.

Laura Ashe (Oxford University), Twelfth-Century Transformations. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium.

Celebrate Valentine's Day early with a live, semi-staged performance of Chaucer's witty poem on nature, love, and finding Mr. Right (or maybe not ...). Music, Middle English, and munchies: what could be more romantic? Co-sponsored by the Program in General Education and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Georgia Henley (Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University), Monastic Libraries in Wales and the March.

Charles Bartlett (Classics, Harvard University), The Lex Romana canonice compta: Tenth-Century Roman Law in Context.

Oliver Marjot (Classics, Harvard University), Lepers and Lay Piety: Exile and Salvation in Jean Bodel's Congés d'Arras.

Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University), Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Manuscript Materiality and Byzantine Materialism. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. Reception to follow.

Rowan Dorin (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Epidemiology of Expulsion in Late Medieval Europe. Please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Francisco Prado-Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), Factum est silentium: Cosmic Silence as an Image in Medieval Manuscript Illumination. Please RSVP by 29 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Christopher Loveluck (Department of History), Game Theory, Archaeology and the Urban Worlds of Western Europe, c. AD 1000-1150. Please RSVP by 15 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Racha Kirakosian (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Mystical Books and Material Text(ure). Please RSVP by 1 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

A symposium on Eastern European identity and biography in the Middle Ages, with contributions by Isaiah Gruber (Hebrew University), Jakub Kabala (Davidson College), Eve Levin (University of Kansas), Timothy May (University of North Georgia), Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin), Heidi Sherman (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), Oleksii Tolochko (Ukrainian National Academy of Science), and Lisa Wolverton (University of Oregon). Sponsored by The Committee on Medieval Studies, the Davis Center for Russian Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Harvard Early Slavists...