Five College Medieval Studies

Michael Drout (Wheaton College), What Makes The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien Great?

Alexandra Montero Peters (Northwestern University), Race, Chess, and Thirteenth-Century Court Culture in the Western Mediterranean. The art of the thirteeth-century Book of Games (Libro del axedrez, dados e tablas ) reveals visions of a diverse...

Kersti Francis (Boston University), Race and Magic in Partonope of Blois.

A program of lightning talks by Hannah Hunter Parker (Department of German, Amherst College), Evan MacCarthy (Department of Music, University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Sonja Drimmer (Department of Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Patricia Clare Ingham (University of Indiana Bloomington), Reading Chaucer in Precarious Times.

Shirin Fozi (University of Pittsburgh), Eidolon and Anima: Romanesque Portraiture and the Problem of the Soul. Sponsored by the Five College Medieval Studies Seminar and the University of Massachusetts Department of the History of Art and Architecture...

Adam Franklin Lyons (Marlboro College), 'Demand and Distribution of Timely Information: News in the Fourteenth Century’—Projects from the Travelers Lab (http://travelerslab.research.wesleyan.edu).

Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa), The Wandering Woman in the Jewish Boy: Gender, Antisemitism, and the English City.

Valerio Cappozzo (University of Mississippi), The Medieval Dream Dictionary: Collecting Symbols from the Ninth Century to 1550.

Colleen Curran (Corpus Christi College Oxford), The Classical Influence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Introduction to the CLASP Project.