Anne Lester (Johns Hopkins University), The Subject behind the Object: Materiality, Ontology, and Social History in the Age of Crusading. Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Siren Celik (Harvard University), Conceptions of Time:... Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Eric Nemarich (Harvard University), The State as a Work of Art: Governing With Petty Officials in Fourteenth-Century Italy.

Jonathan Conant (Brown University), Was There Combat Trauma in the Early Middle Ages? Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Martin Carver (University of York), Wearing Wealth: A Discussion about Social Change from Coinage to Clothing. This seminar for undergraduate and graduate students is part of the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture program The View from the Trenches: Archeology and Medieval Studies Today, and is co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop, the Medieval History Workshop, and the Harvard Numismatic Association. Please RSVP to Sean Gilsdorf by Monday, 1 April if you would like to attend.

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Melissa Vise (Washington and Lee University), Verbal Violence in Tales and Acts: The Decameron and the Notarial Register. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Graduate Workshop and the Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Riccardo Rao (University of Bergamo), Medieval Commons in Communal Italy: Economic Growth and Public Utility.

Elizabeth Comuzzi (UCLA), Estimating Medieval Populations Using Notarial Evidence: The Example of Early Fourteenth-Century Puigcerdà.

John Mulhall (Harvard University), Newfound Ignorance: Attitudes Towards Greeks and Arabs and the Origins of the Medieval Translation Movement in Southern Italy.

Henry Gruber, Arian and Trinitarian Disputes in Sixth-Century Iberia in their Material Contexts: The Case of Mérida.

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College), The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race. Co-sponsored with the Early Modern, History of Science, and Medieval History Workshops.

A two-day symposium featuring presentations by medievalist graduate students from Harvard and Yale Universities.

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Michael Gervers (University of Toronto Scarborough), Ethiopia’s Judeo-Christian Heritage as Reflected in Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology.