Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

(Unexpected) Sources for the Medieval Economy, a roundtable discussion led by Maryanne Kowaleski (Fordham University) featuring presentations by Jenny Adams (University of Massachusetts Amherst) on "Late Medieval Loan Chests and the Value of Academic...

Nikoloz Aleksidze (Free University of Tbilisi; Visiting Scholar in Georgian Studies), Sanctity, Gender, and Power in the Medieval Caucasus. Co-sponsored with the Program in Georgian Studies and the Harvard Byzantine Studies Colloquium.

Cameron Cross (University of Michigan), Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar.

Karel Pacovský (Charles University, Prague), The Benedictine Nuns of St. George’s Abbey in Prague and their Books. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center History of the Book Seminar.

Justin Steinberg, Professor of Italian at the University of Chicago, discusses his book Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on Trial (Cambridge University Press, 2023) with Jesus Velasco, Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish & Portuguese...

Tobias Daniels (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Scribbling and Scrabbling: Medieval Notebooks. Please RSVP by Friday 12 April to Lydia Shahan.

David Callander (Cardiff University; Associate in Medieval Studies), Prophecy and Voice: The Welsh Dialogue of Merlin and Gwenddydd. Please RSVP by Thursday 14 March to Lydia Shahan.

Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Hostile Archives, Houghton Charters, and the Case of Belia of Bedford. Please RSVP by Thursday, 28 March to Lydia Shahan.

David Berikashvili (University of Georgia), Uncovering Samshvilde: Commerce and Conflict in the Medieval Caucasus. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Program on Georgian Studies, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, and the Committee on Archeology...

Anita Savo (Boston University; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Lost in Transliteration: Al-Waqqashī's Elegy for Valencia. Please RSVP by Thursday, 22 February to Lydia Shahan.