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2016 Undergraduate Prize Winners
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...
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Climate change in the early Middle Ages
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 ...
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Revisiting the Black Death
Harvard scholars use ice core data to explore the role of famine in the fourteenth-century plague pandemic. Read more here ...
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Shahab Ahmed memorial
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...
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Of manuscripts and MOOCs
Harvard's medieval manuscript treasures go big, and digital, in the new HarvardX course "The Book". Read more ...
Jeffrey Hamburger presents in "The Book" on HarvardX

In memoriam Paul Meyvaert
Harvard's community of medievalists mourns the loss of Paul Meyvaert (1921-2015), magister, comes, amicus omnium. Our condolences to his family, friends, and students. Paul Meyvaert passed away on October 6, 2015, unexpectedly at home. He was the loving...

Singing the Middle Ages
Professor Racha Kirakosian (Germanic Languages and Literatures) explores women's voices in medieval literature through an Arts@29Garden concert. More here ...

Hot off the Presses: Truth and Tales
Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Ohio State UP, 2015), co-edited by Nicholas Watson (English) and Fiona Somerset. More here .