Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), Incunabula from Bavaria at Harvard. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the workshops is limited; to register, please click here.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), Incunabula from Bavaria at Harvard. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the workshops is limited; to register, please click here.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books: A Doctor, Chronicler, and Collector at the Transition from Manuscript to Print. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.

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Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Clerics as Husbands and Fathers in the Eleventh Century. Professor Griffiths' talk will be preceded by the Committee on Medieval Studies' Opening Reception. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Medievalists from Harvard and the Boston area are invited to join us for drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and convivial conversation as we ring in the new semester! Please plan to attend the opening meeting of the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, featuring Stanford University's... Read more about Committee on Medieval Studies Opening Reception

Bibendum/Gebeorscipe: a Medieval Graduate Social Hour. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium and the Medieval Graduate Interdiscplinary Workshop. 

Anna Wilson (English) will lead a workshop for graduate students/early career researchers, “The Article Process from Pre-submission to Publication: A Workshop,” beginning at 5pm in Barker Center 133. Materials will be circulated prior to the workshop. This event is co-organized by the English Departmenet Medieval Colloquium and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop.

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The Renaissance Colloquium, the English Department COGS Social Chair, the Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop, and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures co-sponsor a pilgrimage along the top floor of Widener Library to welcome the new semester with mirth and merriment! Please contact Andrew Maxwell  if you need help accessing Widener.

Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago), Byzantium as Europe's Black Mirror. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

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Tobias Hrynick (Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow): According to the Law of the Marsh: Community Government and Environmental Crisis in the Medieval Romney Marsh.

A lecture by Nikolas Bakirtzis, Associate Professor and Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) of the Cyprus Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Kristen Carella (Assumption College), Northumbrian Law Before the Vikings. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar, the Department of English, and the Harvard Law School Program of Study in Law and History.

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Lorenzo Bondioli (History and NELC): Weaving Capital and Labor: The Medieval Egyptian Textile Boom. Co-sponsored with the Medieval History Graduate Workshop.

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Amina Elbendary (American University in Cairo; Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies