Sententiae

Sententiae is an undergraduate Medieval Studies journal, edited and managed by student-scholars at Harvard College. To learn more about Sententiae, please visit its website here!

Recent issues:

Volume 9 (Fall 2025)

     Daniel Bethke (Tufts University), "Minting Might: Irene of Athens’s Use of Symbolic Rhetoric to Bolster Authority"

     Conger Wang (University of Edinburgh), "The History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Slavery?"

     Kaitlyn Stanton (Rhode Island School of Design), "Perceptions of South and East Asia In The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, Twelfth-Century Jewish Traveler"

     Keaton Flynn (UCLA), "God’s Glow: Divine Light and Stained Glass"

      Kaitlyn Stanton (Rhode Island School of Design), "The Imagined Cathedral of Santa María de Zaragoza"

Volume 8 (Spring 2025)

     Anna Guethoff (Bowdoin College), "Gendered Sovereignty: Comparative Paradigms of Female Power in Byzantium, Georgia, and the Seljuk World (11th–12th c.)"

     Markus Joerg (Brown University), "A Translator’s Treatise on Vogelweide’s Der Wahlstreit"

     Alex Geldzahler (Yale University), "Saints, Kings, and Popes: The Politics Behind the Sainthood of Louis IX"

     Jack Pressgrove (Vanderbilt University), "Dating St. Patrick’s Arrival in Ireland: A Critical Examination of the Sources"

     Theo Glaeser (Harvard University), "Alessandro Valignano’s Account of a Post-Imjin Military Incident in De Rebus in Japoniae Regno –Letter on Events in the Kingdom of Japan (1599): An English Translation"

     Adriana Van Manen (Smith College), "Re-membering the Disjecta Membra of the Past: Medievalism + Modernity in the Photographs of Arthur Kingsley Porter and Lucy Wallace Porter"

     Elizabeth Bailey (Bryn Mawr College), "Making an Early 1400s Houppelande"

Volume 7 (Fall 2024)

     Christine Corcoran (Harvard University), "The Ruler God Provided: John Skylitzes’ Treatment of Basil
II and His Adversaries in Synopsis Historion"

     Corbin Robinson (Harvard University), "Literalizing Metaphor: How St. Jerome Took the Fun out of
Jonah"

     Olivia Glunz (Harvard University), "Dante’s Journey Home: Exile and Communion in the
Divine Comedy"