Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Giorgio Lizzul (University of Vienna), Measuring Inequality in Fifteenth-Century Venice: New Evidence from Venetian Chronicles . This paper examines a hitherto unstudied Venetian chronicle which uniquely reproduces fiscal data from a mid-fifteenth-century...

Adam Franklin-Lyons (Emerson College), The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Medieval Crises: Food Shortages and Piracy.

In his 1982 essay "Nonmoral Nature," the historian of science Stephen Jay Gould meditated on the role that morality should or should not play in our understanding of the natural world. Animals are neither evil nor kind, in Gould's view, and morality has...

The Dead Hand of the Past, a roundtable discussion featuring Sofia Carbonell Realme (English), Joe Currie (Committee on the Study of Religion), Reed Morgan (History), and Ana Luiza Nicolae (History of Science). Co-sponsored with Ancient Studies at Harvard...

Pere Benito Monclús (University of Lleida): Beyond Climate: War, Crusade, and the Making of Famine in Mediterranean Europe, 11th-13th Centuries Over the last two decades, the paleoscientific revolution has had a profound impact on the way we make history...

Pablo Sanahuja (Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard), Justice in Practice: The Delivery of Justice by Peter IV of Aragon.

Lorenzo Bondioli (History and NELC): Weaving Capital and Labor: The Medieval Egyptian Textile Boom. Co-sponsored with the Medieval History Graduate Workshop. Between the ninth and the twelfth centuries, Egypt experienced an impressive boom of textile...

Please join the Medieval Graduate Interdiscplinary Workshop and the Medieval/Early Modern History Workshop for their inaugural event of the year, featuring Nicholas Thyr (Celtic Languages and Literatures) , Towards a Relative Chronology of Medieval Irish...

Yves Coativy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), Contemporary Interpretations of the Breton Middle Ages, From Nationalism to the Far Left (1923-2023). Co-sponsored with the Department of History's Early Modern and Medieval Graduate Workshops and the...

Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth University), The Croix d’Anseau and the Cult of the Cross in Paris.