The truth about blood libel

November 22, 2016

The Harvard Gazette profiles Medieval Studies Visiting Scholar Emily Rose, author of the prize-winning The Murder of William of Norwich (Oxford University Press, 2016). Read more ...

"A Trove of Beautiful Books"

September 14, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reviews the new exhibit Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, now on view at Houghton Library, the McMullen Museum of Art, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Read more ...

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August 21, 2016

Harvard Magazine on the groundbreaking exhibit and conference "Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections," opening on 12 September. Read more here ...

Boston's Medieval Manuscripts Take Center Stage

August 1, 2016

The Boston Globe reports on the upcoming exhibit Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, hosted by Harvard University, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Boston College. ...

2016 Undergraduate Prize Winners

May 23, 2016

The Committee on Medieval Studies congratulates its 2016 undergraduate prize winners, Rivka Hyland '16 and Faye Zhang '17. Ms. Hyland (NELC) was awarded this year's Class of 1955/Robert T. Coolidge Thesis Prize for her thesis Direct Speech: In Search of a Common Idiom in Early Abbasid Christian and Islamic Theology. Ms. Zhang (English and VES) won this year's Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper “Mary Magdalene and the Stained Glass Ceiling." See ...

Undergrad medievalists receive 2016 Hoopes Prize

May 6, 2016

Harvard College medievalists Lane Baker (History) and Rivka Hyland (NELC) were among the 64 graduating seniors awarded Hoopes Prizes for outstanding student research. Read more here.

Climate change in the early Middle Ages

February 19, 2016

Harvard medieval historian Michael McCormick discusses the "Late Antique Little Ice Age" and its wide-ranging consequences for the early medieval world, east and west. Read more here ...

Revisiting the Black Death

January 6, 2016

Harvard scholars use ice core data to explore the role of famine in the fourteenth-century plague pandemic. Read more here ...

Harvard medievalist selected as Rhodes Scholar

November 25, 2015

Undergraduate medievalist Rivka Hyland '16, a concentrator in NELC, is among five Harvard students awarded Rhodes Scholarships this year. Read more here ...

Shahab Ahmed memorial

November 5, 2015

A memorial celebration of the life and work of our friend and colleague Shahab Ahmed will take place at Harvard's Memorial Church on Sunday, 15 November from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.. A reception will follow the service. For more on Professor Ahmed's career and many accomplishments, please click here.

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