MIT Ancient and Medieval Studies

Daniel L. Smail (Harvard University), Practices of Slavery in Mediterranean Europe, 1250-1500.

Megan Cook (Colby College), Dirtbag Medievalism or, Medievalism Without the Middle Ages. This paper asks how the concept of “the medieval” functions differently than other historical periods by focusing on “minor medievalisms”—those allusions to and...

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Is Book History the History of Books? Genealogies Between the Scroll and the Codex in Fifteenth-Century England.

Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna), Plague, War, Migration, Climate Change, Sex, and the Demographic Riddle of the Early Middle Ages. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study, emeritus), The Challenges and Dangers of Genetic History. This event will take place on the Zoom platform; to register, please click here.

Thomas F.X. Noble (University of Notre Dame emeritus), Virtual Materiality. This talk will take place on Zoom; please click here to join the meeting.

Kim Sexton (University of Arkansas) and Lynda Coon (University of Arkansas), Racetrack to Salvation: The Circus, The Basilica, and the Martyr. Zoom link here. Six basilicas constructed by Christians in fourth-century Rome relate purposefully to ancient...

Adam Trettel (Harvard University), Flowers in Venantius Fortunatus: The Continuity of Nature in Late Antiquity.

Jonathan Conant (Brown University), Was There Combat Trauma in the Early Middle Ages?

Emily V. Thornbury (Yale University), The Virtue of Ornament: The Case of Hypermeter in the Old English Judith.