Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf), Letters from the Convent: The Late Medieval Benedictine Nuns of Lüne Writing on Daily Life, Amor Dei, and Politics.
Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf), How to Read Letters from a Nun: Paleography and Female Religious Life. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Graduate Workshop.
A symposium for recent and graduating seniors and Master's-level students, sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM). Participants will present cross-disciplinary research using modern...
Stijn Praet (Medieval Studies and Stockholm University): On the Narrative Logic of an Asinine Medieval Fairy Tale. Please RSVP by 30 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).
Lino Pertile (Harvard University), Uses and Abuses of Intelligence from Dante to Machiavelli. For Boston College parking information, please visit http://www.bc.edu/offices/ transportation/visitor.html.
Vasileios Marinis (Yale University), Death and the Fate of the Soul in Byzantium: Theologies, Liturgies, Images. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture of Hellenic College Holy Cross.
Keynote on Saturday, Oct. 7, 5:15pm-6:15pm: Katherine Forsyth (University of Glasgow) Playing with Status: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Boardgames in Early Medieval Celtic Culture. For additional details, go to: http://www.hcc.fas.harvard. edu...
Jack Tannous (Princeton University), Arabic-Speaking Christians and the Bible. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture of Hellenic College Holy Cross and the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts...
Jack Tannous (Princeton University), An Early Arabic New Testament Translation. A workshop for students focusing on several early Arabic translations of the New Testament, including Sinai Arabic 73, Sinai Arabic 151, and Vatican Arabic 13, with special...