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A reading by poet Patience Agbabi from Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014), her 21st-century retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, followed by a conversation with Anna Wilson (Harvard University). Sponsored by the Department of English and the Committee on Medieval... Read more about Telling Tales: An Evening with Patience Agbabi

Samantha Seal (University of New Hampshire; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), 'Y comen of Cristen Blood': Crafting Racial Christianity in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Robert Bork (University of Iowa), Applying CAD to Geometrical Research in Art History: Gothic Cathedrals and Beyond. Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by Harvard Arts & Humanities Research Computing (DARTH), the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Read more about Taking the Measure of French Gothic Architecture, 1130-1280: Geometry, Structure, and Competition.

The Gothic architectural tradition emerged in France around 1130, and it flourished spectacularly for the century and a half that followed. Scholars have long recognized that French builders made dramatic progress in this period largely because they were competing to produce structures taller and more daring than any seen before, but the details of this architectural arms race have remained rather obscure, because the geometrical character of the Gothic design process has rarely been considered in this context. In this workshop, Professor...

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Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Eric White (Princeton University), Evidence for the Earliest Export of Printing from Mainz. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. This lecture is free and open to the public; please register... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

A day-long symposium honoring the career of Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History at Harvard University. Featuring presentations by Frances St. Amant (Harvard University) Diliana Angelova (University of California Berkeley), Merih Danalı (Wake Forest University), Ivan Drpić (University of Pennsylvania), Konstantina Karterouli (Dumbarton Oaks), Janet T. Marquardt (Eastern Illinois University), Bissera V. Pentcheva (... Read more about Σεβαστή: A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou

Bibendum/Gebeorscip: A Medieval Social Hour. Co-sponsored by the Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Department Medieval Colloquium.

Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College) will lead a workshop on publishing in Medieval Studies. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Workshop, the English Department Medieval Colloquium and the Medieval Graduate Interdiscplinary Workshop. Read more about Publishing in Medieval Studies Workshop

Kathleen Tonry (University of Connecticut; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Almanacs, Calendars, Computations: Questions of Time and Temporality in Late-Medieval English Books. Co-sponsored by the MHC Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be provided; please RSVP by 13 April to Lydia Shahan. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Author Sarah Spence, Distinguished Research Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, discusses her new book The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Author Rowan Dorin, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University, discusses his new book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar