Committee on Medieval Studies

Ahmed Ragab (HDS), The Islamic Hospital. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of History of Science Early Science Working Group, and the Harvard Divinity School Science, Religion, and Culture Program.

Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam), Inside Augustine. Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and Harvard Divinity School.

Food, Drink, and Merriment galore, featuring very short stories of guaranteed veracity on the wonders of olden times, and the profit to be gained from knowledge thereof, including "How the Middle Ages nearly ended my honeymoon", "Brother John’s guide to...

Björn Kühnicke (Harvard University), Tracking the Unicorn: Meistersang and the Motet Principle.

Elena Iourtaeva (Harvard University), Design, Purpose and Patronage of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi

Richard Cole (Harvard University), Philology and Desire.

Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School), That Weight in Your Loins: Patienthood and Case Histories in Medieval Islamicate Medicine. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Artes and Liberal Arts: From Medieval Learning to the Modern University: a panel discussion featuring Jan Ziolkowski (Classics, Harvard), Eileen Sweeney (Philosophy, Boston College), Nicholas Watson (English, Harvard), and Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity...

Sean Gilsdorf (History and Literature and Medieval Studies), Doing Words (and Pictures, and Curriculum) with Things: The Medieval Object Lessons Initiative. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School), Why Would Anyone Want to Look at an English Manuscript Statute Book? Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.