Committee on Medieval Studies

Nicholas Watson (English, Harvard University), The Humiliation of St. Osith . Lunch will be provided; please RSVP by Thursday, 18 September to Program Assistant Sofía Carbonell Realme .

Join Harvard and Boston-area medievalists for food, drinks, and lively conversation at the Committee on Medieval Studies' Fall welcome reception! Followed by Reception(s), the opening meeting of the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.

Reception(s); a roundtable featuring Jessica Barr (Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts), Hussein Fancy (History, Yale University), Alice Isabella Sullivan (History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University), and Jan Ziolkowski (Classics and...

Laura Morreale (Middle Ages for Educators, Princeton University; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Age: Transcription, Translation, and the Image du Monde. Co-sponsored with the Medieval Studies...

The third Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies, featuring: 9:45 am: Opening remarks by Dr. Lauren Kaminsky, Director of Studies for the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, and Dr. Sean Gilsdorf, Administrative Director...

Reading Older Scots: An Introduction. Led by Alice Gibson (University of Glasgow/University of St Andrews), this brief foray into medieval Scottish literature will introduce participants to one of the most enduringly popular texts from the so-called...

This event honors the retirement of dedicated faculty member and frequent Chair of Folklore and Mythology, Professor Stephen A. Mitchell. An expert in Scandinavian and Old Norse folklore, Professor Mitchell’s contributions to historical folkloristics and...

Colin Brady (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Consent, Consultation, and Cultural Memory in the Revival of the Óenach Tailten: 1007-1166.

Have you ever wondered how medieval scholars tracked time without modern technology? Or how the complexities of lunar cycles and solar years dictated the sacred rhythms of life? In this dynamic, intensive, and hands-on graduate "crash course," Dr. Anthony...

Over the past century, our knowledge about medieval buildings, the purposes to which this knowledge has been applied, and the technologies which we have used to visualize them, have evolved constantly. This exhibition explores the rich tradition of...