Watch it now ...
In case you missed it (or want to see it again), Professor Brent Miles' April 2021 Medieval Studies Seminar lecture Treatises on Biblical Kingship from Medieval Ireland now is available on YouTube! Click here to access the video.
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Harvard Medievalists honored as 2020 Cabot Fellows
Three members of Harvard's Medieval Studies community have been honored as 2020 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and...
What Were They Thinking?
Harvard Law Today recently talked to medievalist Liz Kamali about her new book, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Read their conversation here!
Harvard Medievalist Stephen Mitchell wins 2019 Jarl Gallén Prize
Stephen Mitchell, the Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore and a member of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, has been awarded the sixth Jarl Gallén Prize by the Thure Gallén Foundation. The prize, created in...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Fictionality and Belief in Middle English Writing, with Julie Orlemanski
Coleridge's famous phrase "the willing suspension of disbelief" implies that disbelief (i.e., secularity) is a pre-condition of fictionality. That argument is made explicitly in Catherine Gallagher's well-known article "The Rise of Fictionality"—but it is...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Encountering the Strange in Early Medieval England, with Martin Foys
From Bede’s accounts of Britain’s originary myths to current scholarly and popular engagements with the Anglo-Saxon past, to encounter early medieval England is to depict or enact strangeness. Taking Sarah Ahmed’s work on embodied strangeness, queer...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: “The beast epic – forgotten by the animal turn?”
Despite a growing body of exciting research on medieval animality, the beast epic, which should loom large in this area of interest, has largely remained on its side lines. Excellent recent studies on medieval animality, for instance by Sarah Kay and...
Africa in the Medieval World: latest lecture available for viewing
The fifth lecture in this year's "Africa in the Medieval World" lecture series is now available online! To watch "Objects and Encounters on the Medieval East African Coast" by Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York), delivered on Monday, 25 March 2019...
New Undergraduate Symposium!
The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature are pleased to announce a new undergraduate symposium on medieval and early modern studies, which will take place on Friday, 3 May 2019 in Emerson Hall. The...
Africa in the Medieval World: Watch it now!
In case you missed them the first time (or want to see them again), the first four installments of this year's Africa in the Medieval World lecture series are available online at the website of our co-sponsor, the Hutchins Center for African & African...
Medieval Studies professor named visiting professor at National Gallery of Art
Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will serve as the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts during the 2019–2020 academic year. During his tenure, Hamburger...
2018 Aga Khan-Medieval Studies lecture now available online!
Video of this year's Aga Khan-Medieval Studies joint lecture in medieval Islamic architecture by Louvre archeologist Rocco Rante ("The Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and the Medieval period")...
