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Dr. Simon Rettig (Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer | Sackler Galleries), An Introduction to Codicology and the Arts of the Book of the Islamic World. This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton Library. Space in...

Dr. Simon Rettig (Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer | Sackler Galleries), An Introduction to Codicology and the Arts of the Book of the Islamic World. This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton Library. Space in...

Dr. Simon Rettig (Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer | Sackler Galleries), Praying for the Ottoman Sultan: A New Look at Manuscripts of Selected Surahs after 1500. Free and open to the public; please RSVP here. This event is co-sponsored by the...

Sylvia Huot (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), The Roman de la Rose : From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Editions. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the 10 am and 2 pm workshops is limited; to...

Sylvia Huot (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), The Roman de la Rose : From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Editions. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the 10 am and 2 pm workshops is limited; to...

Sylvia Huot (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), Nuanced Readings: Iconographic Shifts in Manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's "Epistre Othea". This lecture is co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Sylvia Huot is...

Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University), Medieval Seals and the Rhetoric of Materiality. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Houghton Library, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. This...

Lasting Impressions: Coins and Seals as Material and Message in the Middle Ages, the 2018 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture and Workshop Series. Featuring lectures by Princeton University's Alan Stahl on Monday, 19 March and NYU's Brigitte Bedos...

Peter Kidd (independent researcher), Greater than the Sum of Their Parts: Incomplete Medieval Manuscripts in Boston and Elsewhere. This lecture will consider a variety of illuminated medieval manuscripts from Houghton and other local collections, each of...

Julian Weiss (King's College London), Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal. A workshop exploring how paratexts (prologues, glosses, commentaries) and the layout of manuscripts and early printed books helped to construct ideas...