Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Clerics as Husbands and Fathers in the Eleventh Century. Professor Griffiths' talk will be preceded by the Committee on Medieval Studies' Opening Reception.

Kristen Carella (Assumption College), Northumbrian Law Before the Vikings. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar, the Department of English, and the Harvard Law School Program of Study in Law and History. In...

Matthew Aiello (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Crime of Wulf and Eadwacer. Lunch will be served; please RSVP by Thursday 19 October to Lydia Shahan.

Laura Morreale (Medieval Studies Visiting Scholar), The Antiquarian's Library. Lunch will be served; please RSVP to Lydia Shahan by Thursday, 9 November.

Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading), Landscapes of (Re)conquest: Archaeologies of Frontier Societies in Medieval Iberia. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Standing Committee on Archeology.

Anna Wilson (Harvard University Department of English), No, Seriously, I Adore Him: Gendered Reading and Queer Affects in Cicero Fandom. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Please RSVP by...

Miriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis. Lunch will be provided; please RSVP by Thursday 5 October to Lydia Shahan (lydiashahan@g.harvard.edu)

Samantha Seal (University of New Hampshire; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), 'Y comen of Cristen Blood': Crafting Racial Christianity in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the...

Kathleen Tonry (University of Connecticut; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Almanacs, Calendars, Computations: Questions of Time and Temporality in Late-Medieval English Books. Co-sponsored by the MHC Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on...

Author Sarah Spence, Distinguished Research Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, discusses her new book The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante (Princeton University Press...